May 15, 2025 - Sale 2704

Sale 2704 - Lot 80

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)
Early Photograph.

Cincinnati, OH: Solographs by Ezekiel Cooper Hawkins, circa 1852.

Sepia-tone albumen photographic image with hand tiniting, depicting Beecher Stowe, seated, her hair parted in the center with dark ringlets, a dark jacket, light blouse with pink bow at the neck and flower-printed skirt. She has a book in her left hand; on a period mount bearing Hawkins's advertisement tacked to verso; 4⅞ x 3⅝ in. image on a 8 x 6½ in. mount.