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Clearly recognizable as Irving; Ball Hughes completed his sculpted portrait of Irving in Boston (?) in 1836. Plaster versions of the bust of Irving are in the National Portrait Gallery (does not have drapery) and in the Boston Anthenaeum (closely resembles this print); another print of the Ball Hughes bust was done by H. B. Hall (although the resemblance to Irving is not as close). See object file for examples. [Jessa J. Krick, Associate Director of Collections, 6/14/2019].
In Evert Augustus Duykinck's Irvinginana, he reprints an 1854 letter from Irving declining an invitation to sit for a portrait bust, in which Irving states that he is not longer sitting for portraits, but that the Mercantile Library Association can do what Mr. Astor did when Irving also refused his invitation to sit for a bust for the Astor Library: "I offered him the use of a model of a bust executed some years since by Mr. Ball Hughes, and which at the time was considered by my friends an excellent likeness" in order to make a copy for their purposes [Jessa J. Krick, Associate Director of Collections, 7/14/2020].Note Type
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Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Administrative Office, Collection Manager's OfficeNote Type
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