Details
BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859). Photograph with clipped inscription and signature ("Your friend John Brown") mounted below, n.d., n.p. [circa 1859]. Oval, 252 x 205 mm. (9 15/16 x 8 1/8 in.) including mount, slightly browned and faded; matted. A large, three-quarter-length sepia photograph of Brown.
"John Brown came close to igniting the Civil War a full year before Fort Sumter by organizing a raid on a government arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, with the plan of arming a slave insurrection. He was quickly captured by troops under U.S. Army Colonel Robert Lee and later executed"--W.M.
"John Brown came close to igniting the Civil War a full year before Fort Sumter by organizing a raid on a government arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, with the plan of arming a slave insurrection. He was quickly captured by troops under U.S. Army Colonel Robert Lee and later executed"--W.M.
Provenance
The Cornelius Greenway Collection (sale, Part I, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 20 November 1970, lot 149).