UNKNOWN MAKER , Group portrait in a garden | Christie's

Sale 9754

Photographs

New York

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4 October 2001

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Lot 55 | PROPERTY FROM THE JACKIE NAPOLEAN WILSON COLLECTION Read more

UNKNOWN MAKER

Group portrait in a garden

Price realised

USD 2,585

Estimate

USD 1,500 - USD 2,500

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UNKNOWN MAKER
Group portrait in a garden
Sixth-plate ambrotype. Circa 1855. Thermoplastic case.
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Literature and exhibited

Literature

Wilson, Hidden Witness:African-American Images from the Dawn of Photography to the Civil War pp. 18-19.

Exhibited

Hidden Witness: African-Americans in Early Photography, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Maliby, California, 29 February - 18 June 1995.

Other information

Pre-Lot Text

PROPERTY FROM THE JACKIE NAPOLEAN WILSON COLLECTION
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