Sep 27, 2018 - Sale 2486

Sale 2486 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Spooner, J.C.; artist and photographer. Large early photograph of a Lincoln painting. Albumen photograph, 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches, signed by the artist in the negative, with Lincoln's facsimile signature below; corners cropped, moderate soiling and foxing, minor dampstaining, ink and wash portrait of unidentified woman laid down over the entirety of verso. Massachusetts, 1865
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Spooner apparently based his painting on Christopher German's January 1861 photograph of Lincoln (Ostendorf O-41), thickening Lincoln's beard a bit and softening his features. He marketed photographs of his work in various sizes including cartes-de-visite.