Conspirator's Portraits

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(09-23-2015 08:54 PM)Dave Taylor Wrote:  

(09-22-2015 11:17 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Laurie, I am confused. I thought the "fair, fat, and forty" pose was unknown until Mike Kauffman discovered it c.1988. If it was previously unknown I am curious how Frank Henry would have used it in 1892. Many thanks for "un-confusing" me, if possible.

Roger,

It appears that the artist made his portraits by looking off of the "Ring of the Conspirators" lithograph included in the Pitman edition of the trial. This would explain while all of Henry's portraits look just like those in that lithograph.

I don't think the photograph was ever unknown; the whereabouts of the original is what Mike found in the Pitman Papers at the NY Public Library.