The Politics and Poetry of New England

1863

Alexander Gardner

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Alexander Gardner

Artist, American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1882

The image shows two men sitting indoors. The man on the left is sitting in a wooden chair, facing the man on the right. He has light-colored hair, is wearing a dark jacket, vest, shirt, necktie, and lighter-colored trousers. The man on the right has a fuller beard and mustache, with medium-length hair, and is wearing a dark three-piece suit. A small table with two books on top is placed between them. The background is plain with a textured surface.

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Provenance

(Thomas Harris, New York); NGA purchase, 2022.

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Inscriptions

lower center on mount printed in black ink: The Politics and Poetry of New England. / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863 by A. / Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Dis- / trict of Columbia.; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: NH-RVB063; upper center: Longfellow / & / Sumner; center stamped in brown ink: GARDNER / Corner 7th & D St., / WASHINGTON / D.C.

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