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The Pauline and Ozzy Fletcher Collection of Whitmaniana
Lot 137

WHITMAN SIGNED PORTRAIT PHOTO.
WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892.
Photograph Signed ("Walt Whitman") and dated May 25, 1882 at lower left,

21 November 2023, 10:00 EST
New York

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WHITMAN SIGNED PORTRAIT PHOTO.

WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Photograph Signed ("Walt Whitman") and dated May 25, 1882 at lower left, by Jacob Spieler, taken c. 1876, 160 x 120 mm, creasing, chip to upper left corner, light soiling.

SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - WHITMAN'S FAMOUS "SPIELER PROFILE," one of Whitman's favorites. When he helped select the image for the frontis of his 1888 Complete Poems and Prose, he called it "the best picture ... not only as a work of art (where it is effective, refined), but because so thoroughly characteristic of me — of the book — falls in line with the purposes we had in view at the start." See Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, p 254.

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