-Sketches

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Many of the New York bohemians were artists, some of whom lived and worked at the Tenth Street Studio building only a few blocks away from Pfaff’s. One of these artists was friendly enough with Whitman that he sketched the poet’s likeness in his own notebook, probably during an evening at Pfaff’s. When Fitz-James O’Brien wrote a parody of Whitman’s style for the comic magazine Vanity Fair, bohemian artist Edward F. Mullen drew a cartoonish Whitman capturing the impish O’Brien under his massive hat.

Caricatures of Walt Whitman
Notebook 91
c. 1862
Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of Walt Whitman
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

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Edward F. Mullen (active 1859 – 1872)
“Counter-Jumps”
Vanity Fair
March 17, 1860

A version of this text has been digitized and is available through The Vault at Pfaffs.

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