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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
SELF-PORTRAIT OF LEWIS CARROLL DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE. Photograph Inscribed to his sister Mary Charlotte Collingwood ("M.C.C."), and with a signature "Lewis Carrol" [sic]. Carte-de-visite albumen oval bust self portrait, showing the author wearing a dreamy expression. Inscribed on the verso, top center, in purple ink. Approximately 2 1/4x1 3/4 inches (image), approximately 4x2 1/2 inches overall; slight bowing to mount, minor scattered soiling to verso; housed in blue cloth solander box. Np, [ca 1875]
Dodgson wrote in 1883 of his apprehension to release his portrait or autograph to any but his closest associates: "My constant aim is to remain, personally, unknown to the world; consequently I have always refused applications for photographs or autographs, as my features and handwriting belong to me as a private individual--and I often beg even my own private friends, who possess one or the other, not to put them into albums where strangers can see them," Letters of Lewis Carroll, ed. Morton N. Cohen, 1979, p. 446, n. 1.
