Vintage Napolean Sarony CDV. Joseph Jefferson for Sale

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Vintage Napolean Sarony CDV. Joseph Jefferson For Sale

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Vintage Napolean Sarony CDV. Joseph Jefferson:
$16.00

Vintage Sarony Carte de Visite PhotographAn original image. Guaranteed authentic.
An originalportrait from the famousSarony Studiolocated in New York City.
Size is Carte de Visite (CDV). Measures approximately 4.25 x 2.5 inches.

Joseph Jefferson III, commonly known as Joe Jefferson(February 20, 1829 – April 23, 1905), was an American actor. He was the thirdactor of this name in a family of actors and managers, and one of the mostfamous 19th century American comedians. Beginning as a young child, hecontinued as a performer for most of his 76 years. Jefferson was particularlywell known for his adaptation and portrayal of Rip Van Winkle on the stage,reprising the role in several silent film adaptations.

His first pronounced success was in 1858 as Asa Trenchard inTom Taylor\'s Our American Cousin at Laura Keene\'s Theatre in New York. Thisplay was the turning-point of his career, as it would be for actor E. A.Sothern. Jefferson revealed a new spirit in comedy, at a time when actors werelong used to a more artificial convention.

Jefferson starts writing while he is abroad in Australia,and on his way back to America in 1865 he hears news of the end of the war andAbraham Lincoln\'s assassination by John Wilks Booth. This news was particularlyweight bearing due to Jefferson’s personal connection to both parties.Jefferson and Booth were acquaintances and Booth’s brother was one ofJefferson’s closest friends and Lincoln was one of the Jeffersons family benefactorsalmost a decade earlier. Jefferson was generally known for being just asfun loving and alive as he was on stage, and as one of the most brilliant comedicactors of the nineteenth century.

Napolean Saronywas recognized as the elite photographer to thestars of late-19th-centuryAmericantheater and dignitaries of his day.From the late 1860\'s until Napoleon Sarony\'s death in 1896 he was deemed the premier portrait photographer of the United States, and one of the greatest in the world.
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