
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. portrait, 1861
A sepia salted paper portrait shows a young man with side-parted hair, a dark jacket and a bow tie, framed in an oval vignette within a thin ink border. Handwritten script beneath reads "O.W. Holmes Jr." and "Boston," matching the title.
- Artist
- Unidentified Artist
- Date
- 1861
- Medium
- Salted paper print
- Source
- Smithsonian (National Portrait Gallery)
- Size
- 2942 × 4000 px
Public domain · Smithsonian (National Portrait Gallery) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1861).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery