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Auction archive: Lot number 734

General Meade and Staff from the Meade Family Collection,

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n. a.
Price realised:
US$4,500
Auction archive: Lot number 734

General Meade and Staff from the Meade Family Collection,

Estimate
n. a.
Price realised:
US$4,500
Beschreibung:

an imposing oversized albumen measuring 18 x 10" on 24 x 17" thick stock mount captioned in ink, Headquarters Army of the Potomac/Washington D.C./July 1865. No photographer's credit. Fifteen of Meade's staff officers are congregated around the General in this magnificent final group photograph with name and rank given as (back row): Thos. Wilson, Brig, Gen. Chf. Commissary, Fred Rosencrantz, Bvt. Lt. Col. A.D.C., F. M. Bache, Bvt. Lt. Col. A.D.C., Thos. A. McParlin, Col. Med. Dir., Geo. A. Meade, Maj. Gen. U.S.A. Commgd. A. of P., Wm. H. Paine, Bvt. Col. Assit. Engr., J.R. Coke, Bvt. Lt. Col., Asst. Comissary, C. D. Emory, Bvt. Lt. Col. A.D.C., E. L. Campbell, Col. Judge Ad. Genl. Front row: J. Sol. Smith, Asst. Surg., J. C. Bates, Bvt. Lt. Col. A.D.C., Geo. N. Macy, Bvt. Maj. Gen. Pro-Mar., Henry J. Hunt Bvt. Maj. GEn. Chf. Arty., Geo. D. Ruggles, Bvt. Brig. Gen. Adjt. Genl., R. N. Batchelder, Col. Cheief. Qr. Mr., S. F. Barstow, Bvt. Col. Asst. Adjt. Genl. An outstanding historic photograph attributed as the personal copy of General Meade. Provenance: Collections of Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, Col. George G. Meade Jr. and The Meade Family, Alderfer Sale, December 12, 2002 Condition: Albumen with strong tones and detail, VG+. Minor mottling in field; generally clean mount showing areas of edge damage with all four corners broken and missing. Appears never to have been in frame.

Auction archive: Lot number 734
Auction:
Datum:
6 Dec 2007
Auction house:
Cowan's Auctions, Inc.
Este Ave 6270
Cincinnati OH 45232
United States
info@cowans.com
+1 (0)513 8711670
+1 (0)513 8718670
Beschreibung:

an imposing oversized albumen measuring 18 x 10" on 24 x 17" thick stock mount captioned in ink, Headquarters Army of the Potomac/Washington D.C./July 1865. No photographer's credit. Fifteen of Meade's staff officers are congregated around the General in this magnificent final group photograph with name and rank given as (back row): Thos. Wilson, Brig, Gen. Chf. Commissary, Fred Rosencrantz, Bvt. Lt. Col. A.D.C., F. M. Bache, Bvt. Lt. Col. A.D.C., Thos. A. McParlin, Col. Med. Dir., Geo. A. Meade, Maj. Gen. U.S.A. Commgd. A. of P., Wm. H. Paine, Bvt. Col. Assit. Engr., J.R. Coke, Bvt. Lt. Col., Asst. Comissary, C. D. Emory, Bvt. Lt. Col. A.D.C., E. L. Campbell, Col. Judge Ad. Genl. Front row: J. Sol. Smith, Asst. Surg., J. C. Bates, Bvt. Lt. Col. A.D.C., Geo. N. Macy, Bvt. Maj. Gen. Pro-Mar., Henry J. Hunt Bvt. Maj. GEn. Chf. Arty., Geo. D. Ruggles, Bvt. Brig. Gen. Adjt. Genl., R. N. Batchelder, Col. Cheief. Qr. Mr., S. F. Barstow, Bvt. Col. Asst. Adjt. Genl. An outstanding historic photograph attributed as the personal copy of General Meade. Provenance: Collections of Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, Col. George G. Meade Jr. and The Meade Family, Alderfer Sale, December 12, 2002 Condition: Albumen with strong tones and detail, VG+. Minor mottling in field; generally clean mount showing areas of edge damage with all four corners broken and missing. Appears never to have been in frame.

Auction archive: Lot number 734
Auction:
Datum:
6 Dec 2007
Auction house:
Cowan's Auctions, Inc.
Este Ave 6270
Cincinnati OH 45232
United States
info@cowans.com
+1 (0)513 8711670
+1 (0)513 8718670
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