May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 233

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.) Warren, George Kendall; photographer. The classic carte-de-visite portrait of Douglass. Albumen photograph, 3 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches, on original mount with photographer's backstamp and facsimile signature on mount recto; minimal wear and soiling. Boston, circa 1879

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Perhaps the best-known portrait of Douglass, used for the frontispiece of his third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. Stauffer, et al., Picturing Frederick Douglass 96.