Giuseppe Garibaldi [photograph].

Record ID: 
443984
Accession number: 
MA 23813
Created: 
[Milan?], [not after 1864]
Description: 
1 photographic print : albumen ; 111 x 62 mm
Notes: 

Title from item.
Carte de visite format.
Accompanying note indicates that the photograph was autographed on the occasion of a breakfast Garibaldi attended in London at the home of United States Consul General Freeman Harlow Morse (1807-1891), which took place, according to contemporary newspaper accounts, on April 22, 1864. NNPM

Inscriptions/Markings: 

With the signature of Garibaldi in ink below image, and an inscription in ink on the verso in the hand of Freeman Morse's daughter, Clara Morse, which continues on a piece of notepaper affixed to the back of the card, and which reads: "Written by Garibaldi when at the home of Mr. Morse U.S. Consul Genl. at London, Eng. Kensington Gate, S. Kenn. To meet Garibaldi at breakfast were his 2 sons & his Secty.-", with a list of fellow diners, including W.E. Forster (MP), Sir Curtis Lawson, Cyrus W. Field, Browning, J.S. Morgan, Chs.(?) Francis Harris, (Benjamin) Moran, "& many others whom I forget. [signed] Clara Morse". NNPM

Summary: 

Portrait of Garibaldi, facing the viewer and wearing a brimless cylindrical "Garibaldi hat".

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