Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 202

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(FREDERICK DOUGLASS.) Augustus Morand, photographer. Carte de visite portrait of Douglass taken during the Civil War. Albumen photograph, 3 1/2 x 2 inches, on original mount with photographer's backmark; moderate foxing, minimal wear. Brooklyn, NY, [15 May 1863]
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Cataloged in "Picturing Frederick Douglass" as portrait 24, tracing two other examples at the Douglass Historic Site and Virginia Historical Society. Douglass spoke at the Brooklyn Academy of Music quite near Morand's studio on the day this portrait was taken (see page 22 of Pictuiring Frederick Douglass).