Author: (Lane, George Martin).
Title: A Superb Carte-de-Visite Photograph of Classicist George Martin Lane, by Edward L. Allen and Frank Rowell, Portrait Photographers, Boston, Massachusetts.
Description: Circa [1879]. [1879]. - sc A 3-3/4 inch high by 2-1/4 inch wide CDV photograph portrait mounted on 4-1/4 inch high by 2-1/2 inch wide heavy cream board mount. The image depicts Professor George Martin Lane. The photographers' pictorial label appears in gilt on the verso. A few notes are penned in ink at the top of the verso: "Prof. George Martin Lane / father of Louisa G. Lane / Mrs. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer". Very good.
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Title: A Superb Carte-de-Visite Photograph of Classicist George Martin Lane, by Edward L. Allen and Frank Rowell, Portrait Photographers, Boston, Massachusetts.
Description: Circa [1879]. [1879]. - sc A 3-3/4 inch high by 2-1/4 inch wide CDV photograph portrait mounted on 4-1/4 inch high by 2-1/2 inch wide heavy cream board mount. The image depicts Professor George Martin Lane. The photographers' pictorial label appears in gilt on the verso. A few notes are penned in ink at the top of the verso: "Prof. George Martin Lane / father of Louisa G. Lane / Mrs. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer". Very good.
Dated 1879 in an early hand.
George Martin Lane (1823-1897). Classicist, he was appointed Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Harvard in 1869. His important "Latin Grammar" was published posthumously in 1898. Very good .
Keywords: PHOTOGRAPHY; CARTE-DE-VISITE; CDV; PHOTO; PORTRAIT; LITERATURE; GEORGE MARTIN LANE; CLASSICIST; POPR PROFESSOR; LATIN LANGUAGE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; EDWARD L. ALLEN; FRANK ROWELL; PHOTOGRAPHERS; BOSTON; ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH.
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
- Book number: 25670
- Book number: 25670
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