Sep 30, 2021 - Sale 2580

Sale 2580 - Lot 208

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(PRESIDENTS--1850.) d'Avignon, engraver; after Mathew Brady. Portrait of Zachary Taylor from the Gallery of Illustrious Americans. Lithograph, 16 1/2 x 13 1/2, printed chine-collé; very faint dampstaining and two short repairs in margin, minor foxing. New York, 1849
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The Gallery of Illustrious Americans was financed by the young Mathew Brady as a means of bringing his daguerreotype portraits to the attention of a larger audience. The result was a critical and artistic success, though not a financial one. "Its portraits are among the best surviving ones of the time"--Taft, Photography and the American Scene, page 60. Panzer, Brady, pages 62-65.