Raynors HCA 2016-10
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/21/2016
1/6 Plate Ambrotype, of young boy standing on a chair, playing a drum and dressed in a Zouave outfit. The image is presented in a 1/2 George S. Cook case. Perfect image was on display at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, 2013. George Smith Cook (1819-1902) was a prominent early American photographer, who ran a gallery in New Orleans, then for ten years traveled throughout the South. He would establish a studio in a town, train photographers, then sell the studio to them and move on. He finally settled permanently in Charleston, South Carolina and recorded the effect of the American Civil War on the city. He captured the first combat photograph ever taken during a visit to Fort Sumter of Union ironclads firing on Fort Moultrie. He moved to Richmond, Virginia and amassed the most complete collection of photographs of that city.
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