Raynor HCA 2014-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/1/2014
Exceptionally rare and wonderful, original, 1865 Albumen CDV Photograph of a Civil War Editorial transformation type Cartoon depicting the "The Assassin", John Wilkes Booth escaping from Washington on horseback and encountering an apparition of President Abraham Lincoln, the man he had just shot in Ford’s Theater. This fascinating Albumen Image is titled in the negative "The Assassin’s Vision" and measures approx. 3 5/16" x 2 1/4" and is mounted on its original, gold gilt border, trimmed cornered card mount. The card mount has pencil notation on the back, "The Assassin’s Vision". There is an 1865 Copyright notice on the front of the card mount that identifies the artist / photographer as Francis Hacker of Providence, Rhode Island. This wonderful Image is a fantastic construct with the face of Lincoln added to the transformation body created by the two trees and with the tiny portraits of the President scattered through the branches of those same trees. We have never seen this particular; Lincoln Assassination related Photograph before and believe it to be VERY rare. The city of Washington is silhouetted in the background.
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