?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(CASED IMAGES) A group of more than 100 cased images, including about half daguerreotypes and half ambrotypes. This broad selection of cased imagery features a portrait of the liberal American clergyman, social reformer, and great orator Henry Ward Beecher; a daguerreotype of a dandy with his hat featuring a red-striped cloth band, an elaborate necktie, and beautifully coifed hair; an ambrotype featuring native men in India; an ambrotype of a walker with his stick and knapsack (who is identified on the back of the case) and another with a group of students and the original dedication to their teacher on verso; images featuring look-a-like children and a man just slightly in-frame as his children are photographed; portraits of children and couples, some with pets or props; and many with delicate hand-tinting and handsome compositions. The daguerreotypes includes: approximately 35 sixth-plates (one is credited to Brady's Gallery on the velvet, two to Plumbe on the brass mat), two to Colton's Sky Light Portraits on the velvet, one to Knickerbocker Gallery on the silk, one to Richard Phila. on the mat, and one to A.J. Beals on the mat); 13 quarter-plates (one credited to Brady's Gallery on the velvet, two signed in the plate, one credited to Welling on the mat, and one to Lawrence on the mat); 4 ninth-plates; and one sixteenth-plate. The ambrotypes include: approximately 6 half-plates (one with a signature in the plate and one with information on verso); 19 quarter-plates (one credited to Burgress on the mat, one to Merrick & Co on the case, and one to Millar's Photographic Portrait Rooms on verso); 22 sixth-plates (one credited to V.L. Richardson on the mat and one to Brady on the mat); 4 ninth-plates; and two unusually sized uncased ambrotypes that appear to be related, featuring a group of similarly-dressed men pulling a large-wheeled wagon, all of whom are sporting matching ribbons, and who are posed in front of Kinsley & Temple Dry Goods (Burlington, Vermont). Most are in leather cases, some split and/or detached; with a combination of brass mats and/or preservers; a few are framed. 1840s-70s
Provenance: The Estate of Richard T. Rosenthal, Philadelphia
