[LEE, Robert E. (1807-1870)]. A group of 5 CDVS, incl. full standing CDV "Blockade Portrait" of the CSA commander. [Richmond, VA]: [Vannerson], [1864].

CDV on cardstock mount. Uncredited, but originally taken by Vannerson in Richmond.

Lee stands wearing his uniform including sword belt and sash, holding his gloves in one hand and his sword in the other. This image was one of two taken after which E.V. Valentine modeled his statue of Lee.

[With:] CDV, profile view of Robert E. Lee, which appears to be made from the portrait of Lee taken at his Richmond home on Franklin Street in April, 1865, not long after Appomattox. Mathew Brady made six negatives on the occasion, and this looks to be a variation of the profile view (see Roy Meredith, The Face of Robert E. Lee in Life and in Legend, p. 65). -- Vignetted view of Lee, after lithograph or engraving. St. Louis, MO: J.A. Scholten. -- Lee's "Farewell Address," General Order No. 9, featuring portrait of Lee at top flanked by hand-colored Confederate flags, with his address below. Uncredited. -- In Memoriam. Robert E. Lee. Baltimore, MD: Leach & Edkins, photographers, 1870. With additional imprint on mount recto of Charles Quartley, Washington, 1870.

Together, 5 CDVs.

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Light toning, otherwise very good.

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[LEE, Robert E. (1807-1870)]. A group of 5 CDVS, incl. full standing CDV "Blockade Portrait" of the CSA commander. [Richmond, VA]: [Vannerson], [1864].

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