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Departure of Hiawatha by Albert Bierstadt, c. 1868

Painting of a lake shore with Native American figures in foreground, canoe on lake in distance, sun setting over water

In this small-scale oil on paper painting, the American landscape painter Bierstadt captured a scene from Henry Longfellow's epic poem, "The Song of Hiawatha." The figure of Hiawatha in a canoe almost disappears into the reflection of the sunset on the lake. The artist presented this painting to the poet at a dinner in his honor at the Langham Hotel, London, July 9, 1868.

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Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Code: LONG

Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Latitude: 42.3769989013672, Longitude: -71.1264038085938

ANCS : LONG 4138

Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site Museum Collection

01/17/2018

c. 1868

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Organization: Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Address: 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

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