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Large Hand-Colored Lithograph, Andrew Jackson

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Large Hand-Colored Lithograph, Andrew Jackson

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Auction Date:2004 Oct 08 @ 21:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:United States
Large (48" x 19") hand-colored lithograph mounted on board. The life size face is so life-like I first thought this was an actual photograph, with details such as the hair over painted in a charming manner. This image is based on a daguerreotype credited to Anthony, Edwards, presumably from the same sitting as the profiles, "Facing the Light" plates 16 and 17. The daguerreotype itself seems to have been lost. An 1845 engraving is Figure 10 in "Facing the Light." An 1856 lithograph by LaFosse is shown as Plate "A" (p. 330) in "Facing the Light." It isn't clear if this were made directly from the daguerreotype or from the engraving. "Subsequently printed and retouched by Brady from a glass plate negative." Both the illustrated engraving and lithograph have a far more "graphic" and less "photographic" quality than the print here. A close-up detail of Jackson's head, made from a negative in the Meserve collection, illustrated in Kunhardt's "Mathew Brady and his World," p. 79, differs in minute details from this print as well. An India ink copy of a daguerreotype (here credited to Brady or his assistant, but must be the same daguerreotype elsewhere credited to Anthony, Edwards) is illustrated from the Brady-Handy collection in Horan, "Mathew Brady; Historian with a Camera" figure 10. It is this same image but reversed, and part of Jackson's hands are shown. This is a magnificent object of great historical significance and with deep connections to photography. Just a few minor abrasions; corners are worn, one is bent. Water stain at bottom.
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