Contributed by NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Description
In this small-scale oil on paper painting, the American landscape painter Bierstadt captured a scene from Henry Longfellow's epic poem, "The Song of Hiawatha." The figure of Hiawatha in a canoe almost disappears into the reflection of the sunset on the lake. The artist presented this painting to the poet at a dinner in his honor at the Langham Hotel, London, July 9, 1868.
About This Item
- Title: Departure of Hiawatha, ca. 1868
- Creator: Albert Bierstadt
- Creation Date: circa 1868
- Subject Date: circa 1868
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Locations:
- USA
- London, England
- Media: Oil on paper
- Dimensions: 26 cm x 31.7 cm
- Local Code: LONG 4138
- Object Type: Image
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- Gifts
- Hiawatha, 15th cent.--Paintings
- Indians of North America
- Iroquois Indians
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882--Associated objects
- Paintings
- Sunrises & sunsets
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For more information about this item, contact:
NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 876-4491
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