Washington Irving
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Washington Irving was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hol
Portrait of Washington Irving in about 1820, attributed to Charles Robert Leslie
Watercolor of Washington Irving's encounter with George Washington, painted in 1854 by George Bernard Butler Jr.
The fictional "Diedrich Knickerbocker" from the frontispiece of A History of New York, a wash drawing by Felix O. C. Darley
Portrait of Washington Irving in 1809 at about 26 years old, by John Wesley Jarvis
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is an 1820 short story by American author Washington Irving contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Irvi
Washington Irving
…short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith…
Ichabod Crane pursued by the Headless Horseman, by F. O. C. Darley, 1849
The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane (1858) by John Quidor
Headstone of Catriena Ecker Van Tassel in the Burying Ground of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow
Ichabod Crane, Respectfully Dedicated to Washington Irving. William J. Wilgus (1819–53), artist chromolithograph, c. 1856