Ambrotype portrait of “Jake and Charles. Two old cronies – intimate friends … Who can deny that we are a happy pair when together.” Dated 15 September, 1862.

A$1,200 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

[USA : unknown photographer], September 1862. Sixth-plate ambrotype with applied colouring, 53 x 62 mm (sight), in an oval brass mat with a scrolling foliate motif, housed in a half leather case with embossed geometric design; a fully contemporary inscription in pencil to the paper lining the inside wall of the case reads: Taken Sept. 15th 1862. Jake and Charles. Two old cronies intimate friends Always will remember the week and circumstances which called us together on this occasion. Who can deny that we are a happy pair when together. ; the ambrotype is in very fine condition. An extraordinary Civil War-era homosocial portrait of two affectionate young male friends.

• Binding: Hardcover

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