[Bryant, William Cullen]

[Photograph, cabinet card] Cabinet card of poet and editor William Cullen Bryant with facsimile signature beneath

[no place of publication stated]: [no publisher stated] c1870s. 6 1/2 x 4 1/8 inches. Albumen photograph laid onto a paper mount with beveled edges (all edges gilt). Facsimile signature beneath the portrait. Previously mounted in an album at some point with remnants of paper on rear. Small, mostly marginal stain at top edge and scuff to lower margin around signature. Nice tonality (8/10) with a few spots in the original negative. Very Good. [28736]


"William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in poetry early in his life. He soon relocated to New York and took up work as an editor at various newspapers. He became one of the most significant poets in early literary America and has been grouped among the fireside poets for his accessible, popular poetry." (wikipedia)

Price: $50.00