National Portrait Gallery
Washington Irving
April 2, 1983 – September 25, 1983
A small exhibition, commemorating the bicentennial of the author's birth, includes portraits, related paintings, and books. Featured is a new NPG acquisition, Christian Schussele's painting, Washington Irving and His Literary Friends at Sunnyside—depicting Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and other pre-civil war writers in Irving's study.
