Record ID:
286250
Accession number:
MA 653.1
Published:
after 1873.
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description:
1 print : etching ; 219 x 146 mm
Notes:
Bryant's signature etched below.
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 that includes Bryant's autograph manuscript of his introduction for a volume of etchings of Old New York by Eliza Greatorex and five related prints: four by Greatorex and a portrait of Bryant signed by Hollyer. Items in the collection are described in 6 individual records (MA 653.1-6).
Inscriptions/Markings:
Signed S. Hollyer.
Summary:
Print shows a portrait of an elderly William Cullen Bryant in 3/4 profile, with a full beard and wrapped in a cloak.
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from G. D. Hellman in December 1910 or January 1911.
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