Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 212

Price Realized: $ 3,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
LAST PORTRAIT OF LEE LEE, ROBERT E. Photograph Signed, "R.E. Lee," carte-de-visite vignetted bust portrait by Boude & Miley, showing the General in civilian attire. Signed in the image at bottom center. 3 3/4x2 1/4 inches (image), 4 1/4x2 1/2 inches; slight fading to image. Np, nd
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On January 10, 1870, Lee sent to a woman in Louisiana a signed carte-de-visite with the same slightly faded image as the present one, noting that "[i]t is the last that has been taken & is the only kind I have. I wish I had a better." Roy Meredith, The Face of Robert E. Lee, 1981, p. 100.