(LINCOLN ASSASSINATION) BOOTH JOHN WILKES Photograph Signed

Sale 2202 - Lot 51A

Price Realized: $ 7,200

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Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000

AMONG MOST REPRODUCED IMAGE (LINCOLN ASSASSINATION.) BOOTH, JOHN WILKES. Photograph Signed and Inscribed, "Yours affectionately / J. Wilkes Boo[th]," carte-de-visite portrait [by Silsbee, Case and Company, or Case and Getchell], showing the actor-assassin seated with a walking stick. Inscribed in the image at top. Photograph mounted on a card mount bearing imprint of S.T. Blessing in New Orleans on verso. Approximately 3 1/4x2 1/4 inches (image), approximately 4x2 1/2 inches overall; inscription truncated at top and right edge affecting the "th" of signature, some scattered soiling. Np, [1862-65]

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The present image is among the most reproduced and pirated of all Booth images. Copies of this and similar images have been found on mounts bearing an imprint of any of a number of studios, including Bradley and Rulofson in San Francisco and Mathew Brady's in Washington, DC. Tintype copies were made from photographs taken in the same session as the present image, and engravings based upon the same poses were issued after the Lincoln assassination by J.H. Bufford of Boston. Gutman and Gutman, John Wilkes Booth Himself, No. 21.