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Washington Irving and His Literary Friends at Sunnyside

1864
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Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Washington Irving and His Literary Friends at Sunnyside
  • Engraver: Thomas Oldham Barlow (British, Oldham, Lancashire 1824–1889 London)
  • Artist: After a drawing by Felix Octavius Carr Darley (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1822–1888 Claymont, Delaware)
  • Photographer: Based on photographs by Mathew B. Brady (American, born Ireland, 1823?–1896 New York)
  • Artist: In conjunction with a painting by Christian Schussele (American (born France), Guebwiller, Haut-Rhin 1824–1879 Merchantville, New Jersey)
  • Sitter: Washington Irving (American, New York 1783–1859 Sunnyside, New York)
  • Sitter: Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1813–1871)
  • Sitter: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (American, 1809–1894)
  • Sitter: Nathaniel Hawthorne (American, Salem, Massachusetts 1804–1864 Plymouth, New Hampshire)
  • Sitter: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American, Portland, Maine 1807–1882 Cambridge, Massachusetts)
  • Sitter: Nathaniel Parker Willis (American, Portland, Maine 1806–1867 Cornwall, New York)
  • Sitter: James Kirke Paulding (American, 1778–1860)
  • Sitter: William Cullen Bryant (American, 1794–1878)
  • Sitter: John Pendleton Kennedy (American, 1795–1870)
  • Sitter: William Gilmore Simms (American, 1806–1870)
  • Sitter: Fitz-Greene Halleck (American, Guilford, Connecticut 1790–1867 Guilford, Connecticut)
  • Sitter: William Hickling Prescott (American, 1796–1859)
  • Sitter: Ralph Waldo Emerson (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1803–1882 Concord, Massachusetts)
  • Sitter: James Fenimore Cooper (American, Burlington, New Jersey 1789–1851)
  • Sitter: George Bancroft (American, 1800–1891)
  • Date: 1864
  • Medium: Mixed method engraving
  • Dimensions: plate: 24 1/4 x 34 in. (61.6 x 86.4 cm)
    sheet: 25 5/8 x 36 in. (65.1 x 91.4 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Henry J. Payne, 1947
  • Object Number: 47.129.1
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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