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LEE, ROBERT E., C.S.A. General. BRADY, MATTHEW, photographer. Carte-de-visite signed ("R E Lee") as President of Washington University, Washington, D.C., n.d. [1869]. 95 x 62 mm. (3¾ x 2 7/16 in.) including mount bearing imprint of Brady & Co., Washington, D.C., slightly browned. A famous, from life image of the retired General, by Brady.Boldly signed in lower right portion. Brady-printed cartes-de-visite of this important portrait are scarce.
ONE OF BRADY'S LAST PORTRAITS OF LEE
In the Spring of 1869, Lee travelled to Washington for the last time. The General met with President Grant for a brief fifteen minute interview and sat with Brady for three portraits. This moving portrait, presented in an oval format, is the last of those three, which were the final pictures Brady took of the retired General, who died eighteen months later. According to one authority, it is "...the finest portrait of General Lee and Brady's best effort," (Meredith, The Face of Robert E. Lee, In Life and in Legend, New York, 1981, p. 77). [With:] LEE, FITZHUGH, C.S.A. General. Autograph letter signed ("Fitzhugh Lee") to "Fitz" (his son), Richmond, Virginia, 27 October 1898. 1 page, 4to, on "Westmoreland Club" stationery. Fitzhugh was Robert E. Lee's nephew. Finishing the Civil War with the rank of Major General (C.S.A.), he later served as Governor of Virginia from 1885-89 and as Consul General to Havana from 1896-98. He entered the U.S. Army in 1898 with the rank at which he left the Confederate, retiring in 1901 as Brigadier General.
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ONE OF BRADY'S LAST PORTRAITS OF LEE
In the Spring of 1869, Lee travelled to Washington for the last time. The General met with President Grant for a brief fifteen minute interview and sat with Brady for three portraits. This moving portrait, presented in an oval format, is the last of those three, which were the final pictures Brady took of the retired General, who died eighteen months later. According to one authority, it is "...the finest portrait of General Lee and Brady's best effort," (Meredith, The Face of Robert E. Lee, In Life and in Legend, New York, 1981, p. 77). [With:] LEE, FITZHUGH, C.S.A. General. Autograph letter signed ("Fitzhugh Lee") to "Fitz" (his son), Richmond, Virginia, 27 October 1898. 1 page, 4to, on "Westmoreland Club" stationery. Fitzhugh was Robert E. Lee's nephew. Finishing the Civil War with the rank of Major General (C.S.A.), he later served as Governor of Virginia from 1885-89 and as Consul General to Havana from 1896-98. He entered the U.S. Army in 1898 with the rank at which he left the Confederate, retiring in 1901 as Brigadier General.
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