Contributed by NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Description
This sketch of the blacksmith shop on Brattle Street was drawn by H.W. Longfellow in 1840. He passed this shop every day on his way to Harvard College and based his poem "The Village Blacksmith" on it. Below the image he wrote:
"Under a spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy stands;"
About This Item
- Title: Sketch of The Village Smithy, Cambridge by Henry W. Longfellow, 1840
- Creator: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Creation Date: 1840
- Subject Date: 1840
- Location: Cambridge, Middlesex County, MA
- Media: Ink on paper
- Dimensions: 20.3 cm x 25.4 cm
- Local Code: LONG 7849, Neg 7.01.027
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Trees--Massachusetts--Cambridge
- Drawings
- Chestnut
- Poets
- Blacksmithing--Massachusetts--Cambridge
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882--Associated objects
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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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