2009-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/31/2009
4" x 6-1/2," albumen with chocolate tones, Lee seated between his son GWC Lee and aid Walter Taylor. Striking image, presented in modern frame. Lee was a paroled prisoner from Appomattox when he reluctantly agreed to pose for a series of photographs for Mathew Brady. The setting was the lower back porch of the home Lee's family rented at 707 E. Franklin St. in Richmond. Brady took six photographs, five of which have survived. Joining him for two of the poses (one of them shown here) is his eldest son, Maj. Gen. George Washington Custis Lee, and his adjutant general, Lt. Col. Walter H. Taylor. Although Brady reportedly asked Lee to pose in the uniform he wore days earlier at Appomattox, Lee' coat bears the wreathless three-star rank insignia of a Confederate colonel, not the proper general's coat that his family later identified as his Appomattox uniform.
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