English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations

English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations

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DODGSON [CARROLL] | Assisted self-portrait albumen print with autograph fragments

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December 10, 03:11 PM GMT

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1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE ('LEWIS CARROLL')

Assisted self-portrait


Albumen print cabinet card, copy print by Hills & Saunders of Oxford with their details on reverse, 145 by 101mm., framed and glazed, cropped to image; [together with:] autograph fragment (“CLD | Aug. 24. / 71”), 27 by 73mm., slight spotting; [together with:] autograph fragment (“Ever your affte brother, | CLDodgson.”), 24 by 113mm., some spotting and browning with tear

 

This image dates from March 1874 and is given Dodgson’s reference number 2212 in Wakeling’s The Photographs of Lewis Carroll – A Catalogue Raisonné (Austin, 2015). Also included in this lot is a modern print of the 1857 self-portrait (Wakeling number 0235) and two fragments from letters, presumably originally sent to Mary Charlotte Dodgson (1835-1911).


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