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John
Poe
(1785 - 1859)
Sarah Threet (1794 - 1861)
The original was composed of
charcoal on paperboard 16 x 20 inches. It was displayed in an oak frame with
painted plaster molding. In the early 1990s the paperboard crumbled into dust.
Luckily, professional negatives were made in 1986. This digital image is a scan
of a print from an inexpensive camera taken of the original in fame that had a glass
pane.
The original of this image
hung in the