Session 2. Exciting photographs 1840's - 2000
Catalog Information: 98 lots with images | View lots
Date: January 31, 2012
Auction House:
Location:
78 Rockland Avenue
Yonkers, NY
USA
10705
Phone: +1 914 423 5806
Fax: +1 914 423 5802
Email: behold@be-hold.com
Viewing Notes:
All items exhibited at the Salmagundi Art Club, 47 5th Avenue, NYC from January 25 - 30th, 1:00 - 7:00 pm on weekdays, 1:00 - 5:00 pm weekends, and before the auction on January 31.
Lot 91A: PAIR OF HAND-PAINTED SALT PRINTS BY REUTLINGER
PAIR OF HAND-PAINTED SALT PRINTS BY REUTLINGER. It seems appropriate to start this section of photographs on paper with some images from the daguerreian era. These are large 7 7/8 x 8 ¼ - inch oval portraits of husband and wife in sealed passepartout [...more]
Lot 92: PRESIDENT MILLARD FILLMORE
PRESIDENT MILLARD FILLMORE. 7 ¼ x 5 ¼- inch salted paper print, hand-cut oval. Fillmore was Vice President under Zachary Taylor. At Taylor's death he became the 13th U.S. President. He supported the cause of slavery. This is a period copy of a daguer [...more]
Lot 93: PRESIDENT JAMES BUCHANAN.
PRESIDENT JAMES BUCHANAN. 5 ½ x 4 ½ - inch salted paper print, hand-cut oval. This is a copy of a daguerreotype by Mathew Brady. As the daguerreotype was likely a reversed mirror image, this copy reverses it back to how the subject would normally loo [...more]
Lot 94: LEWIS CASS, SALT PRINT PORTRAIT
LEWIS CASS, SALT PRINT PORTRAIT. 7 ¼ x 5 1/8 - inch hand cut salted paper print, a copy of one of the portraits by Mathew Brady. Cass was Secretary of State under Buchanan. He resigned in 1860 over Buchanan's failure to secure the fort at Charleston. [...more]
Lot 95: JAMES HARLAN, SECRETARY OF INTERIOR UNDER A. JOHNSON
JAMES HARLAN, SECRETARY OF INTERIOR UNDER A. JOHNSON. Before and after his service he was a Senator from Iowa. He was a friend of Lincoln's, and his daughter married Robert Todd Lincoln. Walt Whitman was a clerk in his department, and Harlan had him [...more]
We're Hiring!
