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

by Walt Whitman, Frederick Gutekunst

$650 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

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1 vols. Image 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches; Paper 9 x 6 inches. Old markings from matting, some toning but very good. Item #371051 An attractive image of the good grey poet, inscribed in an unknown contemporary hand a line from Song of Myself 42 : And what is reason? and what is love? and what is life? In his day books, Whitman recorded receiving photographs from Philadelphia portraitist Gutekunst in March 1880. This is a later phototype

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