ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN (1805-1875). Carte-de-visite photograph inscribed and signed on verso ("H.C. Andersen"), by Thora Hallager, Copenhagen (imprint on verso), n.d. [circa 1872]. 107 x 64 mm. (4½ x 2½ in.) including mount, author's name lettered in ink in lower margin. A handsome profile portrait, inscribed on verso in Danish [translates]: "To the warm-hearted noble-minded Miss Rye heartily and respectfully H.C. Andersen Copenhagen, 20 May 1870." With early translation note in ink below.

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ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN (1805-1875). Carte-de-visite photograph inscribed and signed on verso ("H.C. Andersen"), by Thora Hallager, Copenhagen (imprint on verso), n.d. [circa 1872]. 107 x 64 mm. (4½ x 2½ in.) including mount, author's name lettered in ink in lower margin. A handsome profile portrait, inscribed on verso in Danish [translates]: "To the warm-hearted noble-minded Miss Rye heartily and respectfully H.C. Andersen Copenhagen, 20 May 1870." With early translation note in ink below.

"Unlike his hopelessly Grimm competitors, Andersen always gave his fairy tales a gentle moral: 'The Emperor's Clothes' and 'The Ugly Duckling' taught the follies of vanity and intolerance"--W.M.

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