Feb 21, 2019 - Sale 2499

Sale 2499 - Lot 14

Price Realized: $ 9,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
JOHN WHIPPLE (1822-1891)
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Salted paper print from a calotype negative, the image measuring 9 1/2x5 inches (24.1x12.7 cm.), the later mount 17x14 inches (43.2x35.6 cm.), with later notations, in pencil, on mount recto. 1853

Additional Details

From a Private California Collector.

Exhibited at the Getty Museum's recent show, "Paper Promises: Early American Photography," in 2018.

The portrait was originally published in the Photographic Art Journal.