Feb 11, 2010 - Sale 2202

Sale 2202 - Lot 15

Price Realized: $ 3,198
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
THE FIRST UNION OFFICER KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY (CIVIL WAR.) ELLSWORTH, ELMER EPHRAIM. Photograph Signed, "Elmer E. Ellsworth," carte-de-visite full-length standing portrait by Brady, showing the Civil War hero in civilian attire. Signed below the image on the album mount into which the photograph has been inserted. Photographer's imprint in image, lower left. Approximately 3 1/4x2 inches (image), approximately 6 1/4x3 3/4 inches overall; minor scattered soiling to mount; matted and framed with a commemorative envelope and an unsigned carte-de-visite showing a bust portrait of Ellsworth in uniform. Np, nd
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Ellsworth (1837-1861) recruited and led a Zouave regiment for the Civil War drawing upon New York's volunteer firemen (the "Fire Zouaves"). He became the first notable casualty of the War when he was shot and killed after removing the Confederate banner from a building in Alexandria, VA.
This image was taken in New York only weeks before his death. Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Mathew Brady and His World, 1977, p. 203.