Image Lot Price Description






1384
$2,014.50

GROUP OF 12 IMAGES OF CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS.

This grouping includes most formats seen during civil war era including 2 large framed chalk or pastels, one of an enlisted Confederate in profile, the other of a full standing enlisted union Sargent of infantry fully uniformed with his musket. There are three albumen ovals measuring from 6″-8″ one thought to be a young Confederate in the Columbus guards, a Confederate infantryman with his musket, bayonet and belt, and a Union officer standing beside his warhorse. Other images are tintypes and ambrotypes including a quarter plate enlisted New York soldier with SNY buckle with his Enfield musket and pistol in his belt. There is a fine 6th plate of a Confederate enlisted man in homespun shell jacket, a 6th plate Sargent John R. Rent Williams of the Enfield Rifles taken May 9th, 1861. SIZE: large pastels- , 29″ h x 26″ w overall and 19″ h 15″ w, overall 27″ h x 23″ w. PROVENANCE: From the Greene Museum of Southern History. CONDITION: Images overall in good condition with good contrast. The two pastels with acid burn and foxing, gesso chipped and missing on frames. Other images some in original frames and cases. 9-28017 (2,000-4,000) – Lot 1384


Auction: Fine Art, Antiques & Asian - February 2015
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