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This
engraving of Edgar Allan
Poe, by Frederick Warne & Co., was done in 1890. It
reproduces
the daguerreotype owned by Sarah Anna Lewis, whose pen name was Stella.
It is one of two images apparently made during the same sitting in
Lowell,
Massachusetts, probably in early summer of 1849. The other image, known
as the "Annie" Daguerreotype has only slight variations in the pose,
the
end of the cravat over Poe's hand, for example, points upwards.
The original "Stella" daguerreotype was stolen in 1974 from the
Alderman
Library of the University of Virginia. No trace of it has been seen
since
then. Numerous copies exist, some with the image inverted. (It should
be
remembered that a daguerreotype itself, developed directly on the glass
plate, is essentially an inversion of the original image.) |
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