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LAST PORTRAIT OF LEE
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LEE, ROBERT E. Photograph Signed, “R.E. Lee,” carte-de-visite vignetted bust
portrait by Boude & Miley, showing the General in civilian attire. Signed in the image at
bottom center. 3
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inches; slight fading to image.
Np, nd
[3,500/5,000]
On January 10, 1870, Lee sent to a woman in Louisiana a signed carte-de-visite with the
same slightly faded image as the present one, noting that “[i]t is the last that has been taken &
is the only kind I have. I wish I had a better.” Roy Meredith,
The Face of Robert E. Lee
,
1981, p. 100.