CARTE-DE-VISITE BRADY PHOTOGRAPH, BOLDLY SIGNED BY ULYSSES S. GRANT

GRANT, Ulysses S. Carte-de-visite photograph signed. Washington: Brady’s & Co’s National Photographic Portrait Galleries, circa 1864. Original albumen photograph, mounted on card, measuring 2-1/2 by 4 inches.    $12,000.

Carte-de-visite photograph, boldly signed in Grant’s own hand: “U.S. Grant, Genl.,” with Brady’s gallery address engraved on the verso of the mount. Exceptionally fine.

A three-quarter-length, seated portrait of Grant in uniform, signed beneath the image. “Mathew Brady helped create, collect, and preserve a majority of the Civil War images and important political figures of the day. Thousands of his glass plate negatives are in the National Archives in Washington, DC” (ANB).

Exceptionally fine condition, signature bold.