Oct 15, 2007 - Sale 2124

Sale 2124 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 28,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
CARROLL, LEWIS [REV. CHARLES DODSON] (1832-1898)
"Fair Rosamond." Arch-topped albumen print, 8 3/4x7 inches (22.2x17.7 cm.), on the original mount with the calligraphic title "Fair Rosamond" on mount recto. 1863
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From the collection of the photographer to Annie Rogers, descended to members of Rogers's family; to an American gentleman.


This print was featured in the Carroll exhibition, curated by Douglas Nickel, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and was reproduced in the accompanying book, "Dreaming in Pictures," pl. 33.


Lewis Carroll, Photographer, pl. 182.


A discussion of the image appears in "Lewis Carroll Diaries," vol., 4, p. 217.


A lyrical depiction of Annie Rogers (who appears as Queen Eleanor) and Mary Jackson (as Fair Rosamond) by the master mathematician-cum-photographic genius Lewis Carroll.