![[CIVIL WAR]. LEE, Robert E. Carte-de-visite photograph signed ("R. E. Lee"), [1864]. 2½ x 4 in. Imprint on back of P. E. Gibbs, Photographist, 1427 Main Street, Whitehurst's Old Stand, Richmond, Va. Signed in ink on lower portion.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2004/NYR/2004_NYR_01450_0360_000(094811).jpg?w=1)
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[CIVIL WAR]. LEE, Robert E. Carte-de-visite photograph signed ("R. E. Lee"), [1864]. 2½ x 4 in. Imprint on back of P. E. Gibbs, Photographist, 1427 Main Street, Whitehurst's Old Stand, Richmond, Va. Signed in ink on lower portion.
A CARTE-DE-VISITE OF LEE IN THE WINTER OF 1864
Taken from the Vannerson photographic portrait of February 1864, this familiar image of Lee shows him in three-quarters view from the left. Lee sat for Vannerson in the winter between the abortive Gettysburg campaign and the Wildnerness and Petersburg struggles of spring and summer 1864. The object was charitable: Vannerson was to send the images through the Union blockade to Berlin, where a young Virginia-born sculptor, Edward V. Valentine, awaited them. Valentine was commissioned to create a statue for a Liverpool exhibition that would benefit disabled Confederate combat veterans. Numerous cdv's, lithographs, and newspaper images were based on the Vannerson sittings, such as this example, produced by another Richmond "photographist," P. E. Gibbs.
A CARTE-DE-VISITE OF LEE IN THE WINTER OF 1864
Taken from the Vannerson photographic portrait of February 1864, this familiar image of Lee shows him in three-quarters view from the left. Lee sat for Vannerson in the winter between the abortive Gettysburg campaign and the Wildnerness and Petersburg struggles of spring and summer 1864. The object was charitable: Vannerson was to send the images through the Union blockade to Berlin, where a young Virginia-born sculptor, Edward V. Valentine, awaited them. Valentine was commissioned to create a statue for a Liverpool exhibition that would benefit disabled Confederate combat veterans. Numerous cdv's, lithographs, and newspaper images were based on the Vannerson sittings, such as this example, produced by another Richmond "photographist," P. E. Gibbs.