HESLER ALEXANDERPLATZ MAX Abraham Lincoln Tousled Hair Portr

Sale 2146 - Lot 247

Price Realized: $ 2,400

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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

HESLER, ALEXANDER/PLATZ, MAX
"Abraham Lincoln, Tousled Hair Portrait." Albumen print, 9x6 inches (22.9x15.2 cm.), with Max Platz's hand stamp and notations, in ink, in a period hand, on mount verso. 1857; printed 1886

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The notations read, "November 16, 1886. Photographic copy of a photograph of Abraham Lincoln made by Hesler of Chicago in 1860 [sic]."
Lincoln: His Life in Photographs, 24.
Lincoln in Photographs, 6.
Meserve, The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln, 6.
The iconic image used in the Lincoln-Douglas senatorial campaign. The original negative was lost in the Chicago fire of 1871, and it is belived that Max Platz, who owned a studio in Chicago, acquired select negatives from Alexander Hesler after his studio was destroyed.