Be-hold 53 Fine Photographs, Daguerreotypes to Modern
Catalogue Information: 160 lots with images | View lots
Date: 28 April 2009
Auction House:
Location:
Radisson Martinique Hotel
49 West 32nd St. and Broadway
New York, NY
USA
10001
Phone: (914) 423 5806
Fax: (914) 423 5802
Email: behold@be-hold.com
Viewing Notes:
At Martinique Hotel in Manhattan: Sunday April 26th 10:00 am to 9:00 p.m. Monday April 27th 10:00 am to 9:00 p.m. Tuesday April 28th, 10:00 to 3:00 p.m. In Yonkers by appointment
Lot 1: Young Man by Mathew Brady.
1/9 plate daguerreotype with original seal, in a case with Brady's clear embossed logo on the velvet pad of the separated cover. The address is for his 205 and 359 Broadway galleries. The handsome subject has a soft mustache and lightly tinted face. [...more]
Lot 2: Girl with Ringlets by C.H. Williamson, Brooklyn.
This elegant child has bows in her hair, a locket suspended from a pearl necklace, shiny bracelets and a dress that leaves her shoulders bare. There is some slight blue coloring that merges with blue tarnish. The 1/6 plate daguerreotype has Williamso [...more]
Lot 3: Young Man Before Wild Landscape Backdrop. Daguerreotype
This 1/6 plate daguerreotype is by Fisher, as he has put his name on the blue tinted tablecloth. This is one of those plates that reveals shifting shimmering coloration as one turns it in the light. In a case with separated cover.
Lot 4: Dog Snoozes On A Rug. Daguerreotype.
A bright clean well-composed 1/6 plate daguerreotype. There are wide floorboards, a table leg in back. There is a little more appeal here than in many daguerreoypes of dogs.And all of them are eagerly collected. In a full case with original spine.
Lot 5: Four Siblings. 1/2 plate daguerreotype
They are up on an elevated platform. The older girl is seated, her feet on a footstool. The young girls, dressed alike and maybe twins, hold to her. Their rother stands at left. This is a large ½ plate size daguerreotype in a full case with repaired [...more]
