MATTHEW BRADY, (1823-1896) ET AL

Selected portraits of Presidents, Generals, Royals, literary and other notable figures

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MATTHEW BRADY, (1823-1896) ET AL
Selected portraits of Presidents, Generals, Royals, literary and other notable figures
An album containing 81 cartes-de-visites in slip-mount pages with rule borders. 1860s. 4to with decorative leather boards and metal clasps.

Literature

See: Horan, Matthew Brady, Historian with a Camera, fig. 303 for the portrait of General Robert E. Lee with his son and Lieutenant Colonel Walter H. Taylor.

Lot Essay

The portraits include: President Lincoln; President Johnson; William Seward; General Grant; General W.T. Sherman; General P. Sheridan; General Meade; General Hancock; General Hooker; Jefferson Davis; Horace Greeley; General Lee, his son and Lieutenant Colonel Walter H. Taylor; Prince Albert; Charles Dickens; Edwin Booth and others.