c1860 CDV John Greenleaf Whittier Fireside Poet Massachusetts Photograph For Sale

CDV of Poet John Greenleaf Whittier, c1860

CDV of the Quaker poet and abolitionist John GreenleafWhittier (1807-1892). Photography creditto A[lfred] W. Bennett, London who ran a studio at 5 Bishopsgate Without from1859-1866, apparently both a photography and a publishing business. Bennett (1833-1902) was one of the firstpublishers to use photographic illustrations; he was responsible for publishingseveral different journals.Interestingly, Bennett was the son of two devout Quakers. The portraitis c1855-60 (Wikipedia shows a portrait of Whittier in daguerreotype which isessentially the same image).