Raynors HCA 2016-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/17/2016
A rare pair of Civil War CDVs of the same Union officer identified as George Crittenden by famed New Orleans Jewish photographer Theodore Lilienthal (1829-1894) who was born in Prussia. He worked as a silk merchant in Berlin before being drafted into Prussia's war with Austria. He was wounded in that conflict and removed with his parents to New Orleans in 1853. His immediately set himself up as a daguerrian artist and published images at 102 Poydras, Street throughout the Civil War and beyond. He established himself as a leading photographer by the end of the war and subsequently was commission by the city's fathers to produce a series of panoramic view of New Orleans to be exhibited in Paris in 1867. As time passed he won awards, praise and patented several new and innovative photographic related processes. In 1890 fire ravaged his studio and sold the business when he fell ill in 1894. Soon afterwards he moved to Minneapolis where he died November 25, 1894. Interestingly, in both views our subject sits in the same chair while one of the images bears a fine woodcut engraving of Lilienthal's studio on the verso. Overall VG to near fine.
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