May 22, 2014 - Sale 2351

Sale 2351 - Lot 205

Price Realized: $ 6,656
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. Photograph Signed, "Nath' Hawthorne," vignetted bust portrait by Brady, carte-de-visite, showing the venerable author looking into the camera. Signed in the image along lower edge with extreme ends crossing onto mount. 3 1/2x2 1/4 inches (image), 4x2 1/2 inches overall; minor scattered dings. Np, nd
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Additional Details

Only one other example of a signed photograph is known to have come to auction (Christie's New York, May 20, 1994, lot 17).
Provenance: Charles Hamilton Galleries, 2 October 1975, lot 91.