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Oval sepia portrait of a young man with side-parted hair, dark jacket and bow tie, with handwritten inscription below reading O.W. Holmes Jr. Boston.

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
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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)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery