Obviously from the same sitting as another Gutekunst photograph. Looking at this photograph, Whitman said, "how weak! how sizzled out! I like it, passably: but it is not one of the best. Perhaps . . . there is enough of me to survive even the worst ordeal: I hope so" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Friday, December 21, 1888).

For more information on Frederick Gutekunst, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers."