The Public Poet
Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow (?) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his study.. Drawing, pencil on paper, ca. 1851.
Courtesy National Park Service, Longfellow National Historic Site LONG 19837 |
This sketch, drawn most likely by a very young Erny, shows Longfellow standing beside his upright writing desk. Note Erny's attempt to include the plaster statuette of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. |