LOT #25413 |
Sold on Dec 2, 2006 for: Not Sold
Rare Melainotype Portrait Of A Virginia Family With Their Slave Nursemaid. This horizontal 1/4th plate melainotype, ca. 1860...
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Description
Rare Melainotype Portrait Of A Virginia Family With Their Slave Nursemaid. This horizontal 1/4th plate melainotype, ca. 1860, surfaced in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. It shows a young white couple beside a slave nursemaid who cradles their child. Whereas the proud parents exude an upper-middle class aura of satisfaction, their servant's attitude is a strange blend of defiance and resignation. Within a very few years of this sitting, Phil Sheridan's Union cavalry would sweep away slavery in the Valley. This image, therefore, truly documents the end of an era. Note that it is subtly tinted with pink flesh tones and light blue in the fields. Housed in a Union case behind a brass mat and glass. The lid of the case is molded with a tableaux of Cupid defeating a wounded stag (Krainik 36). Minute chips to case, else overall excellent condition. Ex. William Turner, author of Even More Confederate Faces.Auction Info
2006 December Signature Civil War Auction #642 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
December, 2006
1st-2nd
Friday-Saturday
Bids + Registered Phone Bidders: 3
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