Beschreibung:

BOOTH, John Wilkes]. An album of photographic portraits (cartes-de-visite), containing EIGHT DIFFERENT CARTES of the actor and assassin, plus cartes of Lt. General WINFIELD SCOTT(1786-1866), Secretary of State WILLIAM H. SEWARD (1801-1872), Secretary of War EDWIN M. STANTON (1814-1869), the actress LAURA KEENE (1826-1873), who appeared in Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre on the night of Lincoln's assassination). N.p., n.d. [evidently assembled 1863-65?]. The album 6 1/8 x 4½ in., bound in light brown morocco, covers shaped in a gothic pattern, engraved brass clasps and catches, all edges gilt, leather turn-ins richly gilt, containing 16 gilt-bordered cut-out frames for the insertion of cartes-de visite (three now empty) . The album in very fine condition, several cartes with owner's ink stamp on versos . Unexamined out of mounts. A FINE ALBUM OF BOOTH PORTRAITS. A highly unusual survival, as so many contemporary cartes-de-visites portraits of Booth were destroyed or defaced following the Lincoln assassination. The series in the present album includes: 1) standing pose, one hand on hip, in profile, three-quarter length; 2) same pose, half length (C.D. Fredericks & Co., New York, backstamp), trimmed ; 3) standing pose, right hand in coat lapel, the other gloved (Fredericks & Co. backstamp); 4) seated pose, looking right, hand on chin; 5) standing pose in overcoat, one hand in pocket, three-quarter length (Fredericks backstamp); 6) seated pose, holding cane, looking and leaning right (Sillsbee, Case & Co., Boston, backstamp); 7) same pose as no. 4, but a variant; 8) similar pose to no.6, but sitting upright instead of leaning. The Stanton carte with M.B. Brady backstamp. Loosely inserted is a Meserve copy of another Booth image.