(THEATER) Mathew Brady photographer Signed carte de visite o

Sale 2675 - Lot 285

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(THEATER.) Mathew Brady, photographer. Signed carte-de-visite of renowned actor Edwin Booth, brother of the assassin. Albumen photograph, 3½ x 2¼ inches, on original mount with photographer's backmark, signed "Edwin Booth" in lower margin; mount remnants on verso, tipped on top edge to modern mat. No place: E. & H.T. Anthony, [1864]

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Booth is shown with his daughter Edwina in his lap; she later became his biographer. Provenance: Swann sale, 2 February 1995, lot 34; property of Steve Forbes.