Lot 191
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY - THEATRE]. Quarter plate daguerreotype attributed as thespian Edwin Forrest portraying possibly King Lear.
Sale 1250 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Nov 30, 2023
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[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY - THEATRE]. Quarter plate daguerreotype attributed as thespian Edwin Forrest portraying possibly King Lear.
Close-up portrait featuring an actor wearing a scraggly-haired wig with matching false beard and mustache, looking somewhat fearfully off-camera, with furrowed brow and poor posture, draped in a black cloth garment or blanket. (Heavy scratching throughout plate, tarnishing to edges and corners, no preserver present; resealed.) Housed in a pressed paper case (back cover exterior with significant punctures, interior upper edge coming loose).
Early Photography Collection of Jules Martino, Silverton, Oregon
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