Cabinet card portrait of Walt Whitman seated with a butterfly perched on his finger. Washington, D.C., 1887.
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Title
Cabinet card portrait of Walt Whitman seated with a butterfly perched on his finger. Washington, D.C., 1887.
Description
Signed and dated by Whitman. 6½ × 4¼".
This image was used as the frontispiece for the “birthday edition” of Leaves of Grass (1889).
This image was used as the frontispiece for the “birthday edition” of Leaves of Grass (1889).
Creator
A.W. Curtis Taylor
Publisher
Washington, DC: Bishop
Date
1887
Collection
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Citation
A.W. Curtis Taylor, “Cabinet card portrait of Walt Whitman seated with a butterfly perched on his finger. Washington, D.C., 1887.,” Poet of the Body: New York's Walt Whitman: May 15 - July 27, 2019, accessed December 1, 2023, http://gabrielmckee.hosting.nyu.edu/whitman/items/show/95.