[Rarebooks] FS: Hawes & Southworth Photograph of Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Charles Agvent]

 From our recently posted internet catalog--American Transcendentalists: 
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau--consisting of 55 items, 
mostly new arrivals and with many autographed pieces. A direct link to 
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[EMERSON, Ralph Waldo] HAWES, Josiah Johnson & SOUTHWORTH, Albert Sands. 
PHOTOGRAPH OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Fine portrait of Emerson, image size 
8-1/2" x 12-1/2" matted and framed to an overall size of 15" x 20". On 
the rear of the frame are two labels from Holman's Print Shop of Boston, 
circa 1940, on which is stated the following: "This photograph was in J. 
J. Hawes' studio at the time of his death and was stored with the rest 
of the contents until 1934, when it came to us for sale. It is a 
photographic copy of a daguerreotype portrait made by Mr. Hawes in the 
1840's. The negative was a collodion-process plate ("wet plate"). This 
print could have been made as late as the 1890's, but more probably 
dates from the 1880's. When Mr. Hawes made the copy of the daguerreotype 
is not known." Southworth and Hawes produced some of the finest 
daguerreotypes of the 19th Century. Among their subjects, besides 
Emerson, were John Quincy Adams, Zachary Taylor, Daniel Webster, Harriet 
Beecher Stowe, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Hawes died at the age of 
94 in 1901, operating his studio up to the end. During the Depression 
his daguerreotypes were dispersed among a few museums and private 
collections. Not examined out of the frame but appears to be Fine.     
     $3,500.00

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