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Lot 355
Sale 2057 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Oct 25, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$800 -
1,200
Price Realized
$1,778
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Lot Description
[LEE, Robert E. (1807-1870)]. BRADY, Mathew (1822-1896), photographer. Two CDVs of Robert E. Lee and his staff. New York: E. & H.T. Anthony, [1865].
2 CDVs on cardstock mounts, each with "Brady / E. & H.T. Anthony" imprint on verso.
Both photographs were taken by Mathew Brady at Lee's Richmond home on Franklin Street in April, 1865, not long after Appomattox. Mathew Brady made six negatives on the occasion, all are seldom encountered.
Includes: A seated portrait of Robert E. Lee dressed in the uniform that he wore for his meeting with General Grant at Appomattox. -- A portrait of of Lee with his eldest son, General George Washington Custis Lee, on the left, and Colonel Walter Taylor on the right.