Photograph of a portrait of Eugène Scribe [photograph].

Record ID: 
314541
Accession number: 
MA 405.1
Author: 
Williams, Sophus, approximately 1835-1900.
Published: 
Berlin : Sophus Williams, [ca. 1860-1890].
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description: 
1 photographic print : b&w ; 138 x 97 mm
Notes: 

Dating based on Williams' active dates.
Bound with Scribe's autograph manuscript of La part du diable (MA 405); see related record for more information.

Summary: 

A cabinet card photograph of Ernst Hader's head-and-shoulders portrait of French dramatist Eugène Scribe, with a facsimile of Scribe's signature below.

Provenance: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1907.
Catalog Link: 
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Classification: 
Photograph
Department: 
Literary and Historical Manuscripts