Golden Age Comic Book Stories

Monday, October 17, 2011

Edgar Allan Poe

1809 ~ 1849

4 comments:

Sheena said...: Another marvellous posting. Great illustrations, thanks for sharing.; 7:17 PM
Andrea said...: As a big fan of Poe i'm very surprised by seeing for the first time the 'unpublished daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe'. I never saw it before, and i can't believe it...Is the standing man really Poe? I mean, is it a sure identification, at 100%? And where did you find it? I've tried to search for other informations on the web about that picture but i've found nothing. Can you add some more info, please?; 8:48 PM
Mr. Door Tree said...: Andrea,
This photo was printed in the April 1916 issue of
The Century Magazine, which is a well
respected magaine of the time...thats all I know about it!; 1:31 AM
Andrea said...: Again, about that curious 'unpublished daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe'... I've just found a note in a book written by Michael J. Deas ('The Portraits and Daguerreotypes of Edgar Allan Poe' 1989, p. 134). It seems that the standing man in that picture is not really Poe. Deas writes in his book:
"Group Portrait -
This photograph of three theatrically dressed young men was first published in the April 1916 issue of the Century Magazine, where it accompanied an article by Lilian McG. Shepherd entitled “A New Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe.” According to Miss Shepherd, the picture had only recently been discovered among the personal effects of Poe’s foster father, John Allan, and depicted Poe accompanied by two of his classmates from the University of Virginia, Miles George and Thomas Goode Tucker. Miss Shepherd was quickly taken to task by J. H. Whitty, who in the August 1916 issue of theCentury noted, rather sensibly, that John Allan could not possibly have owned the photograph, he having died five years before the invention of photography. Indeed, the picture’s resemblance to Poe is minimal, and the composition and overall style of the photograph date the image to about 1860 — well after Poe’s death in 1849."; 11:07 AM

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