Feb 15, 2018 - Sale 2466

Sale 2466 - Lot 11

Unsold
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
J.A. SCHOLTEN (active 1870s)
Portrait of General George A. Custer (1839-1877). Albumen print, the image measuring 5 1/2x4 1/8 inches (14x40.5 cm.), the ruled mount 9 1/2x6 3/8 inches (24.1x16.2 cm.), with the photographer's credit, his elaborately designed initials, and St. Louis location on mount recto. 1872
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This photograph was taken in St. Louis on the occasion of Custer's involvement in a buffalo hunt with Russia's Czar Alexander. The plate appeared as a tipped-in illustration to Philadelphia Photographer, a period trade publication for professional photographers, and was widely reproduced after the Battle of Little Big Horn.