Reexamining Nathaniel Hawthorne's Bowdoin Silhouette
January 10, 2024
January 10, 2024
BRUNSWICK, Maine, Jan. 10 -- Bowdoin College issued the following news on Jan. 8, 2024:
In 1825, the great novelist-to-be Nathaniel Hawthorne sat, along with many fellow Bowdoin students, to have his likeness recorded by a silhouette artist. Or did he?
Today the College owns two copies of Hawthorne's image as it was purportedly captured two centuries ago.
Director of Special Collections & Archives Kat Stefko recently took on the task of reexamining . . .
In 1825, the great novelist-to-be Nathaniel Hawthorne sat, along with many fellow Bowdoin students, to have his likeness recorded by a silhouette artist. Or did he?
Today the College owns two copies of Hawthorne's image as it was purportedly captured two centuries ago.
Director of Special Collections & Archives Kat Stefko recently took on the task of reexamining . . .