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1859. Steel engraving by Schoff from a painting by Charles Hine. Saunders #11. Courtesy of Gay Wilson Allen. Included here among the photographs because of its familiarity and because it is the only likeness of himself not based on a photograph that Whitman used in his books. Whitman called it "characteristic," and noted that "I was in full bloom then: weighed two hundred and ten pounds-- ...in those years I was in the best health: not a thing amiss." |
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