Dec 13, 2007 - Sale 2132

Sale 2132 - Lot 297

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
(AMERICAN SALTED PAPER PRINTS)
Group of 9 portraits, 8 depicting notable American men of rank attributed to Mathew Brady. Salted paper (8) and albumen (1) prints, from 12x9 3/4 to 17x13 1/2 inches (30.5x24.8 to 43.2x34.3 cm.), most with caption labels and period (?) notations on verso and a few with moderate to heavy retouching; all but one is mounted. 1850s-60s
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The salt prints include: General C.K. Graham (Gettysburg) William Rufus Blake D.T. Valentine (City Clerk of New York) Governor Briggs (New York) Wendell Phillips (lawyer/Anti-Slavery activist) William H. Seward (U.S. Secretary of State), Roscoe Conkling (U.S. House of Representatives/U.S. Senate) Governor E.D. Morgan (New York) Richard Cobden (Father of Free Trade in Britain).

The albumen print is of General Garfield (20th President of the United States).