?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 18,000 - $ 22,000
(CIVIL WAR) A group of 40 plates from Alexander Gardner's seminal Sketchbook of the Civil War. Albumen prints, each approximately 7x9 inches (17.8x22.9 cm.), or slightly smaller, and one the reverse, each on the original two-toned mount with the photographers' and Gardner's credits, the caption, plate number, and date printed on recto; most with the original printed text sheet laid in; also with two additional plates on the Incidents of the War mount, also with the photographers' and Gardner's credits. 1862-65; printed 1866
The plates from Gardner's Sketchbook were deaccessioned by the New York Historical Society, circa 1992, and acquired by the collector as a group. Ken Burns used these very photographs in his documentary about the Civil War.
The lot includes: Wm. R. Pywell, No. 1, Marshall House, Alexandria, Virginia, 1862 (lacks text sheet) Barnard & Gibson, No. 4, Stone Church, Centreville, Virginia, 1862 Barnard & Gibson, No. 5, Fortifications on Heights of Centreville, Virginia, 1862 (lacks text sheet) Barnard & Gibson, No. 6, Quaker Guns, Centreville, Virginia, 1862 Barnard & Gibson, No. 7, Ruins of Stone Bridge, Bull Run, 1862 Barnard & Gibson, No. 10, Manassas Junction, 1862 Wood & Gibson, No. 12, Battery No. 1., Near Yorktown, Virginia, 1862 Wood & Gibson, No. 13, Battery No. 1, Near Yorktown, Virginia, 1862 Wood & Gibson, No. 14, Battery No. 4, Near Yorktown, Virginia, 1862 (lacks text sheet) Gardner, No. 18, Ruins of Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 1864 Gardner, No. 24, Scene in Pleasant Valley, Maryland, 1862 T.H. O'Sullivan, No. 29, Lacey House, Falmouth, Virginia, 1862 T.H. O'Sullivan, No. 33, Evacuation of Aquia Creek, 1863 T.H. O'Sullivan, No. 46, Provost Marshal's Office, Aquia Creek, 1863 T.H. O'Sullivan, No. 47, Castle Murray, Near Auburn, Virginia, 1863 T.H. O'Sullivan, No. 49, General Post-Office, Army of the Potomac, 1863 T.H. O'Sullivan, No. 50, The Halt, 1864 Gardner, No. 51, The 'Shebang,' or Quarters of U.S. Sanitary Commission, Brandy Station, 1863 Gardner, No. 52, Residence Chief Quartermaster, Third Army Corps, Brandy Station, 1863 Gardner, No. 53, Headquaters Christian Commission in the Field, Germantown, 1863 Gardner, No. 54, Field Hospital, Second Army Corps, Brandy Station, 1864 (lacks text sheet) T.H. O'Sullivan, No. 56, Head-Quarters, New York Herald, Army of the Potomac, 1863 T.H. O'Sullivan, No. 57, Camp Architecture, Brandy Station, Virginia, 1864 T.H. O'Sullivan, No. 60, Head-Quarters Army of the Potomac, Brandy Station, Virginia, 1864 T.H. O'Sullivan, No. 61, Commissary Department, Head-Quarters Army of the Potomac, 1864 Gardner, No. 65, Jericho Mills, North Anna, Virginia, 1864 T.H. O'Sullivan, No. 66, Chesterfield Bridge, North Anna, Virginia, 1864 T.H. O'Sullivan, No. 68, Charles City Court-House, Virginia, 1864 Reekie, No. 71, Aiken House on Weldon Railroad, Virginia, 1865 T.H. O'Sullivan, No. 74, Poplar Grove Church, nd T.H. O'Sullivan, No. 78, Three First Traverses on Land End, Fort Fisher, N.C., 1865 T.H. O'Sullivan, No. 81, View of the Petersburg Gas Works, 1865 T.H. O'Sullivan, No. 84, View of the Interior of Fort Stedman, 1865 T.H. O'Sullivan, No. 85, Blandford Church, Petersburg, Virginia, 1865 T.H. O'Sullivan, No. 86, Interior View of the Confederate Line at Gracie's Salient, 1865 J. Reekie, No. 87, Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia, 1864 Wm. R. Pywell, No. 90, Old Capitol Prison, Washington, nd Gardner, No. 91, Ruins of Arsenal, Richmond, Virginia, 1863 J. Reekie, No. 93, Ruins of Gaines' Mill, Virginia, 1865 J. Reekie, No. 95, Mechanicsville, Virginia, 1865.
The Incidents of the War plates include, Plate 47, T.H. O'Sullivan, Castle Murrray, Near Auburn, VA and Plate 89, Gardner, Libby Prison, Richmond, VA (with text sheet).
