May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 232

Price Realized: $ 6,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.) Scarce war-era carte-de-visite portrait of Douglass. Albumen photograph, 3 1/2 x 2 inches, on original plain mount; minor foxing, mount remnants on verso. Np, circa 1865

Additional Details

Listed in "Picturing Frederick Douglass" as portrait 42. They found no institutional holdings of this sitting, though one other example appeared at auction in 2009. The photographer is unknown.