[Rarebooks] FS: Johnson's Superb Portrait of Walt Whitman, "The Laughing Philosopher"

[Charles Agvent]

[WHITMAN, Walt] JOHNSON, Thomas. PORTRAIT OF WALT WHITMAN. First 
Edition. Fine Drypoint Proof Etching by Thomas Johnson, SIGNED by 
Johnson in pencil, after a photograph by George Cox of Walt Whitman head 
and shoulders wearing his wide-brimmed hat, seated, with a flowing 
beard, turned towards the artist. Matted and framed to an overall size 
of 15-1/2" x 18" with the actual image size 7-3/8" x 9-7/8" and the 
visual etching size not covered by the mat 10-1/4" x 12-1/2." Said to 
have been Whitman's favorite and sometimes called "The Laughing 
Philosopher," it has become one of the best-known images of Whitman. 
Some age discoloration on the mat not extending to the print. A Fine 
example of this superb and now uncommon image.

English-born artist Thomas Johnson lived and worked in the United 
States, producing a number of engravings and etchings of famous 
Americans such as Whitman, Lincoln, Bryant, Francis Scott Key, and 
George and Martha Washington. (#019347)        $2,000.00

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