Oct 22, 2009 - Sale 2191

Sale 2191 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN)
Select group of 6 photographs of, or relating to, Abraham Lincoln, including one large-format later print of Gardner's "pencil pose" (printed circa 1900), 2 cabinet cards, and 3 cartes-de-visite of contemporary figures. Albumen prints (5) and a silver print (1), from 3 1/2x2 1/4 to 13 1/2x10 1/2 inches (8.9x5.7 to 34.3x26.7 cm.), all but one on original mounts and three with printed captions. 1860s-Circa 1900

Additional Details

The other sitters include Senator Salmon P. Chase, Stephen A. Douglas and Mary Todd Lincoln.


The large-format print of President Lincoln was taken by Alexander Gardner and printed later. The variant views of this sitting appear in "Lincoln in Photographs" (pages 218-229) and "The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln" (97-100).