Phototype portrait of Walt Whitman, bearded, in soft hat and open collar shirt and jacket

by Walt Whitman, Frederick Gutekunst

$1,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

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1 vols. 8vo. Oval matting to 6 x 4 inches, masking some mild toning to outer edges of image from an earlier frame. Attractively framed and glazed 12 x 9 inches overall . Item #338375 An attractive image of the good grey poet.In his day books, Whitman recorded receiving photographs from Philadelphia portraitist Gutekunst in March 1880. This is a later phototype of the portrait, dated to the later 1880s from a signed example in the Berg

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