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THOMAS EAKINS, attributed to (1844-1916)
Portrait of Walt Whitman, Brooklyn.
Albumen print, the image measuring 3
3
/
4
x4
1
/
2
inches (9.5x11.4
cm.), with the numeric notation 20, in pencil, on verso. 1887
[4,000/6,000]
This rare study of Whitman (1819-1892) is believed to be by Thomas Eakins, who painted his
portrait that same year.The painting is in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia. An
oil sketch of the poet, also by Eakins, is housed in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Whitman,
Specimen Days
, pl. 172.
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J. A. SCHOLTEN (active 1870s)
Portrait of Gen. George A. Custer.
Albumen print,
the image measuring 5
1
/
2
x4
1
/
8
inches (14x40.5
cm.), the ruled mount with the original tissue
guard 9
1
/
2
x6
3
/
8
inches (24.1x16.2 cm.), with the
photographer J.A. Scholten’s credit, his elabor-
ately designed initials, and St. Louis location on
mount recto. 1872
[4,000/6,000]
This photograph was taken in St. Louis on the
occasion of Custer’s involvement in a buffalo
hunt with Russia’s Czar Alexander.The plate
appeared as a tipped-in illustration to
Philadelphia
Photographer
, a period trade publication for
professional photographers, and was widely
reproduced after the Battle of Little Big Horn.
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