Oct 20, 2022 - Sale 2618

Sale 2618 - Lot 20

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(LEAVES OF GRASS)
Portrait of Walt Whitman (1819-1892) with a butterfly. The portrait was taken by Phillips & Taylor. Silver press print, the image measuring 4 1/2x3 inches (11.4x7.6 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, the mount 8x5 1/2 inches (20.3x14 cm.), with Whitman's name in pencil in an unknown hand on mount recto, and the Culver Pictures stamps and barcode and a label with a caption in pencil, on mount verso. 1873; printed 1920s