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A NEW YORK COLLECTOR
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. MATTHEW B. BRADY, Photographer. Carte-de-visite portrait photograph signed as President ("A. Lincoln") on the verso, n.d. Albumen print, mounted on standard card, 101 x 61 mm. (4 x 2 3/8 in.), with imprinted legend on verso: "Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries Broadway & l0th Street New York No.322 Pennsylvania Av. Washington D.C.," the image very slightly faded and one extreme upper corner with a small smudge. L. Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs, Dayton, l985, no.O58B, illustrated p.94 & 94; Lincoln's signature on this example also illustrated at p.247 (enlarged).
A FINE BRADY CARTE, SIGNED BY LINCOLN FOR A MASSACHUSETTS REPRESENTATIVE
A good, dignified portrait of the President, probably taken on Lincoln's second visit to Brady's Washington studio, in l862. The same sitting produced the famous imperial portrait (Ostendorf O57), taken with Lincoln in the identical seated pose. We are not aware of another signed example of this version of the portrait. This example was signed, according to Ostendorf, by Lincoln for his friend Thomas Dawes Eliot.
Provenance:
1. Thomas Dawes Eliot, a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. It was Eliot who, in December l863 introduced a Bill to establish a 'Bureau of Emancipation' intended to assist those freed by Lincoln's Emanciÿation Proclamation (see Basler's footnote in Lincoln, Works, vii, 77)ÿ
2. By descent to Dawes' grandaughter, Mrs. Clara R. Frothingham.
3. Lloyd Ostendorf.
4. The present owner, a New York collector.
A NEW YORK COLLECTOR
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. MATTHEW B. BRADY, Photographer. Carte-de-visite portrait photograph signed as President ("A. Lincoln") on the verso, n.d. Albumen print, mounted on standard card, 101 x 61 mm. (4 x 2 3/8 in.), with imprinted legend on verso: "Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries Broadway & l0th Street New York No.322 Pennsylvania Av. Washington D.C.," the image very slightly faded and one extreme upper corner with a small smudge. L. Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs, Dayton, l985, no.O58B, illustrated p.94 & 94; Lincoln's signature on this example also illustrated at p.247 (enlarged).
A FINE BRADY CARTE, SIGNED BY LINCOLN FOR A MASSACHUSETTS REPRESENTATIVE
A good, dignified portrait of the President, probably taken on Lincoln's second visit to Brady's Washington studio, in l862. The same sitting produced the famous imperial portrait (Ostendorf O57), taken with Lincoln in the identical seated pose. We are not aware of another signed example of this version of the portrait. This example was signed, according to Ostendorf, by Lincoln for his friend Thomas Dawes Eliot.
Provenance:
1. Thomas Dawes Eliot, a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. It was Eliot who, in December l863 introduced a Bill to establish a 'Bureau of Emancipation' intended to assist those freed by Lincoln's Emanciÿation Proclamation (see Basler's footnote in Lincoln, Works, vii, 77)ÿ
2. By descent to Dawes' grandaughter, Mrs. Clara R. Frothingham.
3. Lloyd Ostendorf.
4. The present owner, a New York collector.