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CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET
(1815-1879)
“Gareth and Lynette” (from Alfred Lord
Tennyson’s “Idylls of the King”). Albumen
print, 13
1
/
4
x10
5
/
8
inches (33.7x27 cm.), with
Cameron’s signature, title, her Tennyson
reference, and the notation “From Life,” in
ink, on mount recto. 1874
[3,000/4,500]
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(ABRAHAM LINCOLN)
Portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Albumen print,
7
1
/
4
x5
1
/
4
inches (18.4x13.3 cm.), mounted to
a sheet and behind an oval overmat, which
has the notation Ballard’s Lincoln, a date
stamp, and a mounted label with printing
notations, in ink, in an unknown hand, on
recto. 1861
[600/900]
This image seems to correspond to a photograph
made by C.S. German in Springfield, on January
26, 1861.The portrait for the original ten-dollar
greenback was engraved from this photograph
(Meserve and Sandburg, The Photographs of
Abraham Lincoln, 34).
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