Original Cabinet Photograph

Oval inset cabinet photograph of the legendary pianist and composer, issued by Rockwood of NY (17 Union Sq).  Light toning, overall in fine condition.  4.15 x 6.4 inches (10.5 x 16.3 cm.).

Talented as a writer, musician, and photographer, George Rockwood (1857-1911) received an honorary Ph.D. from Columbia University late in life for his contributions to the arts. Early in Rookwood’s career, his landscape photography "had no rival" from the mid 1860s to the mid 1870s and he mastered landscape work as a field photographer during the American Civil War, working out of a mobile field van.  Also noteworthy was his early embrace of the cart-de-visite as a vehicle for portraiture. He opened a second multi-story studio on the 15th Street and Union Square that became his chief venue for portrait work during the 1880s. At the end of his life, his studio records indicated that during the course of its twenty-eight years of activity, over 350,000 individuals had been photographed by "Rockwood & Co." From the first he viewed himself as a general portraitist, shooting the public as well as celebrities.  (20166)

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