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Schussele, Christian, 1824-1879 Washington Irving and His Friends

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08878.0317 Author/Creator: Schussele, Christian, 1824-1879 Place Written: s.l. Type: Engraving Date: circa 1870 Pagination: 1 print : b&w Order a Copy

One undated engraving of a group of men entitled Washington Irving and His Friends. Includes Washington Irving, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Kirke Paulding, William Cullen Bryant, John Pendleton Kennedy, William Gilmore Simms, Fitz-Greene Halleck, William Hickling Prescott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Fenimore Cooper, and George Bancroft. Based on a painting by Christian Schussele and Felix Octavius Carr Darley.

Bancroft, George, 1800-1891
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851
Cullen Bryant, William, 1794-1878
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 1790-1867
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
Paulding, James Kirke, 1778-1860
Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870
Tuckerman, Henry Theodore, 1813-1871
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867
Carr Darley, Felix Octavius, 1822-1888
Schussele, Christian, 1824-1879
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
The American Civil War

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