Features: Walt Whitman and the Arts in Brooklyn

William Sydney Mount (American, 1807–1868). Caught Napping (Boys Caught Napping in a Field), 1848. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, 39.608.

While not the exact painting that Whitman referred to in the passage, this work is from around the time of the exhibition.

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