[WHITMAN, Walt]. Black-and-white profile portrait photograph by THOMAS EAKINS (1844-1916). Camden, [1891]. SIGNED "WALT WHITMAN" in blue pencil. 109 x 71 mm.
THE VERY FINE EAKINS PORTRAIT OF WALT WHITMAN. Thomas Eakins and his student Samuel Murray visited Whitman in his Camden, NJ home in May 1891 and took portrait photographs of the poet. According to the Walt Whitman Archive: "Taken in Whitman's Camden home. Scholars of Eakins's work disagree about the nature of the difference between this and two other photographs -- whether they are different, retouched, and cropped versions of each other, varying prints, etc. Saunders catalogued them separately, and they seem to be distinct if very similar poses."
[WHITMAN, Walt]. Black-and-white profile portrait photograph by THOMAS EAKINS (1844-1916). Camden, [1891]. SIGNED "WALT WHITMAN" in blue pencil. 109 x 71 mm.
THE VERY FINE EAKINS PORTRAIT OF WALT WHITMAN. Thomas Eakins and his student Samuel Murray visited Whitman in his Camden, NJ home in May 1891 and took portrait photographs of the poet. According to the Walt Whitman Archive: "Taken in Whitman's Camden home. Scholars of Eakins's work disagree about the nature of the difference between this and two other photographs -- whether they are different, retouched, and cropped versions of each other, varying prints, etc. Saunders catalogued them separately, and they seem to be distinct if very similar poses."
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