May 04, 2017 - Sale 2446

Sale 2446 - Lot 204

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
TERRY, ELLEN. Three items: Photograph Signed * Two Autograph Letters Signed. The photograph, cabinet card 1/2-length portrait by Notman, showing her wearing gloves, coat, and hat. Signed in the image at lower edge with lower portion crossing onto mount. 5 1/2x4 inches (image), 6 1/2x4 1/4 inches overall; faint scattered soiling, minor scattered abrasions. The first letter, to an unnamed recipient, sending signed photographs. 3 1/4 pages, 8vo; moderate bleed-through throughout. The second letter, to "Dear Sir," sending her autograph. 1 page, 8vo, "The Niagra" stationery, with integral blank. (MRS) Np, nd; New York, "Monday 2.30. A.M."; Buffalo, 5 February 1902

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"Monday": ". . . I send you back your photograph signed, & some others! which . . . prove I'm not as nice as the Great Sarony wishes to make out. . . ."
with--Ellen Terry. Two cabinet card photographs, one a bust portrait by Van der Weyde, showing her in a gauzy hood, signed in the image; the other a 1/2-length seated portrait by Window Grove, showing her as Portia, unsigned. Each 6x5 inches; the signed one with loss to mount and image at lower left. Np, nd.