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Lot 141
Sale 2112 - Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection
Oct 24, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$600 -
800
Price Realized
$699
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Lot Description
New York -- Statue of Liberty
A pair of images related to the Statue of Liberty including an interior view of the head by Seneca Ray Stoddard (1844-1917).
A pair of images related to the Statue of Liberty including an interior view of the head by Seneca Ray Stoddard (1844-1917).
8 1/8 x 6 1/2 in. albumen photograph on slightly larger cardstock mount. Image number, caption and copyright printed in the negative: "781 Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor. Interior of Head. Copyright 1890, by S. R. Stoddard, Glens Fall, N. Y."
This is an early image of the interior of the statue, taken just a few years after it arrived in New York Harbor. Interestingly, graffiti is already present and visible on the walls featured here. To the viewer's left appears a small section of the 25 crown windows, designed to represent the 25 gemstones found on the earth, through which light pours into the image.
This is an interesting view from Stoddard, who was best known for his landscape photography of the Adirondack Region.
7 1/8 x 9 3/4 in. carbon print on 10 1/8 x 13 1/2 in. mount, being a folio from a bound volume of articles and images originally published in the weekly periodical, Galerie Contemporaine. Letterpress titling and crediting above and below image featuring Bartholdi's renowned sculpture, originally titled La Liberté Éclairant Le Monde, or Liberty Enlightening the World.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.



