Works of Art
Franz Liszt at the Covento di Santa Francesca by G.P.A. Healy, 1869 oil on canvas |
Near the Corinthian columns is a portrait of Franz Liszt, painted by George Peter Alexander Healy in Rome in 1869. Longfellow and Healy visited Abbe Liszt, who came to the door holding a candle. Longfellow asked Healy to paint Liszt as they saw him. |
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Mercury France or Italy mid-19th century |
On the central table is a bronze copy of Mercury in the style of Giovanni Da Bologna. | 
Library table with Mercury |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Thomas Brock 1885 marble bust |
Near the Italian bookcase containing the white vellum Italian books stands the 1885 marble bust of Longfellow. It duplicates the one in the Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey in London, but is smaller in size. This marble copy was commissioned by Alice Longfellow shortly after the original was unveiled on August 22, 1885. |
Library, northwest corner |
Sappho by Thomas Crawford Rome, April 1855 plaster statuette painted white |
Crawford's statue of Sappho was given to Henry Longfellow by Louisa Ward Crawford, the sculptor's wife, after the death of her husband in 1861. Longfellow had volumes of Sappho's poetry in his collection. |
Sappho on bookcase |
Bronzes on the library's mantel (Left) Setter France, c. 1840s-60s by Pierre-Jules Mene bronze sand-cast, probably by the artist (Right) Rachel France, 1839 by Jean-Pierre Dantan bronze sand-cast, Guesnel foundry |
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Library Mary King Longfellow, 1876 (not on exhibit) |
This watercolor sketch made by Longfellow’s niece, Mary King Longfellow, represents this end of the library as it looked in 1876. |
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