Sale 2466 - Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks, February 15, 2018

11 c J.A. SCHOLTEN (active 1870s) Portrait of General George A. Custer (1839-1877). Albumen print, the image measuring 5 1 / 2 x4 1 / 8 inches (14x40.5 cm.), the ruled mount 9 1 / 2 x6 3 / 8 inches (24.1x16.2 cm.), with the photographer’s credit, his elaborately designed initials, and St. Louis location on mount recto. 1872 [4,000/6,000] This photograph was taken in St. Louis on the occasion of Custer’s involvement in a buffalo hunt with Russia’s Czar Alexander. The plate appeared as a tipped-in illustration to Philadelphia Photographer , a period trade publication for professional photographers, and was widely reproduced after the Battle of Little Big Horn. 12 c EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE (1830-1904) Man throwing large, spherical object , plate 319 from Animal Locomotion. Collotype, the image measuring 5 1 / 2 x18 1 / 4 inches (14x46.4 cm.), the two-toned sheet 19x24 inches (48.3x61 cm.), with Muybridge’s letterpress credit, series title, plate number, copyright, and date on, recto. 1887 [800/1,200] 13 c EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE (1830-1904) Man rowing , plate 327 from Animal Locomotion. Collotype, the image measuring 7 5 / 8 x14 1 / 4 inches (19.4x36.2 cm.), the two-toned sheet 18 3 / 4 x23 3 / 4 inches (47.6x60.3 cm.), with Muybridge’s letterpress credit, series title, plate number, copyright, and date, on recto. 1887   [600/900] 11