Feb 25, 2010 - Sale 2204

Sale 2204 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 15,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 10,000
HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED IMAGE (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.) Quarter plate collodion wet plate ambrotype photograph of Frederick Douglass. Housed in a gutta percha '"Tryst" case, 4x5 inches; mat and preserver from an earlier period. Probably originally housed in a period frame, accounting for some light scratches. Circa 1870s
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Exhibited at the Gerald Ford Presidential Library, February - May 2007. This apparently unpublished beardless portrait of Douglass, resembles an image residing in the National Archives. The collodion wet plate process was invented in 1851 and survived through the 1870s, however it was rarely used after the popularization of tintypes in the 1860s.