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Photograph Album. Civil War.
Cost:
$27,500.00
#68655
THE CIVIL WAR “HEROIC PORTRAIT IN A BOLD NEW FORM”: EXCEPTIONALLY RARE CIVIL WAR CARTE DE VISITE ALBUM, CIRCA 1865, WITH 61 ALBUMEN PRINTS OF LINCOLN, ROBERT E. LEE AND OTHERS(CIVIL WAR) (BRADY, Mathew). Civil War Photograph Album. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, (circa 1865). Oblong quarto, original blindstamped full brown morocco, raised bands, ornamental brass catches and clasps, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. $27,500.Original Civil War Photograph Album, circa 1865, featuring 61 mounted albumen cartes de visite portraits, many by Mathew Brady, of President Lincoln, Mary Lincoln, General Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Union generals Ulysses S. Grant, Sheridan, McClellan and Burnside, along with many others. From the major photography collection of musician Graham Nash with his signed bookplate.“Photography was more intricately involved in the American Civil War than in any other historical event in the 19th century… The documentary of the Civil War by photographs in carte de visite formats represents one of the few remaining, untapped sources of contemporary Civil War information” (Darrah, 74, 87). This handsomely bound carte de visite album represents the finest of the period in its collection of 61 mounted albumen prints (57 displayed in gilt paper frames). Represented herein are numerous Civil War portraits by Mathew Brady, who by 1863 was hailed as “the ‘Father of American photography’” (Panzer, 115). Additionally featured are prints by colleague Alexander Gardner and leading rivals such as Charles Fredericks, Augustus Turner, R.W. Addis and Frederick Gutekunst, Jr. Especially notable is Brady’s striking portrait of President Lincoln taken circa 1862, printed from one frame of the lost original stereographic negative (Mellon, 96). Also within are fine albumen prints of Mrs. Lincoln, the Confederacy’s Jefferson Davis, President Andrew Johnson and General Ulysses S. Grant, together with over 50 other carte de visite portraits of key Union officers, including those of Sherman, McClellan, Burnside and Scott. This scarce album thus fully represents the beliefs of Brady and others who saw their work as a major “part of the material from which the historians and the partners could construct their record”—producing a timeless series of “heroic portrait in a bold new form” (Panzer, 85, 77). Each mounted albumen print measuring 2-1/2 by 4 inches: 57 prints displayed within numbered frames on heavy gilt-edged stock and four prints laid in, many with photographer/studio printed on the verso. “Index to Portraits” completed in manuscript. With the signed bookplate of photographer and musician Graham Nash tipped in.Images generally quite fresh with only light scattered foxing occasionally affecting images, tiny close tear to gutter of “Index to Portraits.”
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