Record ID:
214028
Accession number:
MA 8658
Created:
Providence, R.I. : Masury and Hartshorn, 1848
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description:
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; frame: 4 x 5 3/4 inches (102 x 146 mm); image: 1 15/16 x 2 11/16 inches (48 x 73 mm)
Notes:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan with Poe's autograph letter signed to John Augustus Shea, dated [New York, 3 February 1845], which contains the earliest surviving portion of "The Raven" in Poe's autograph (MA 621), now housed separately.
High reserve.
One of five contemporary copies of the "Ultima Thule" daguerrotype by Samuel Masury and S.W. Hartshorn, Providence, Rhode Island, 9 November 1848.
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the dealer G.S. Hellman, 22 April 1909.
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