Aug 17, 2023 - Sale 2644

Sale 2644 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

JEREMIAH GURNEY & SON (active 1860-1874)


Portrait of the American writer Walt Whitman (1819-1892).
A carte-de-visite photograph. Albumen print, the image measuring 92x57 mm; 3
This and other photographs from the Gurney session sometimes appear on George G. Rockwood cartes-de-visite. Rockwood either purchased Gurney's negatives or made copy prints in the 1880s.