Record ID:
286203
Accession number:
MA 34.4
Published:
after 1873.
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description:
1 print : etching ; 212 x 147 mm
Notes:
From an engraving by S. Hollyer, after an 1873 photograph by Napoleon Sarony. A copy of the Sarony photograph is held in the National Portrait Gallery (ref. NPG.76.69).
Part of a collection of seven items relating to William Cullen Bryant (MA 34.1-7). Items in the collection are described in individual catalog records.
Summary:
Print shows a portrait of an elderly William Cullen Bryant in 3/4 profile, with a full beard and wrapped in a cloak. Bryant's signature is engraved below.
Provenance:
Collection bound together for the New-York Co-Operative Society; purchased from the New-York Co-Operative Society by Pierpont Morgan in November 1908.
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