About the Artwork
Walt Whitman
between 1887 and 1888
Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins
1844-1916
American
Unknown
Albumen print
Image: 3 5/8 × 4 3/4 inches (9.2 × 12.1 cm) Mount: 7 × 8 1/2 inches (17.8 × 21.6 cm)
Photographs
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Feinberg
F78.108
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Markings
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Labeled on verso: PHOTO OF WALT WHITMAN BY | THOMAS EAKINS | SAUNDERS #103 | EAKINS-1969 #110 | FIG #45 Labeled on verso: EAKINS FIG 46 | SAUNDERS #123 | 16
Provenance
1979-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Carr, Carolyn Kinder. "A Friendship and a Photograph: Sophia Williams, Talcott Williams, and Walt Whitman." The American Art Journal 21, 1 (1989): 2-12, p. 2 (ill.).
Thomas Eakins: His Photographic Works. Exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Philadelphia, 1969, no. 110, fig. 45 (as "Eakins, Walt Whitman. Second floor bedroom in Whitman's Camden house.").
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins, Walt Whitman, between 1887 and 1888, albumen print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Feinberg, F78.108.
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