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18. 1844> Cameo by John C. King, now known only from the 



photograph made from a cast of the original 

 intaglio, which the artist presented to the 

 father of Mr. 0. A. Farwell, of Detroit, in 

 1871. 



"My father and Mr. King were great friends, and on one 

 occasion, when father dropped into Mr. King's studio, he found 

 Mr. Audubon sitting for the cameo. Mr. King introduced the 

 two gentlemen and asked them to start a conversation, which 

 was continued during the sitting. The two men became so 

 animated in their very interesting conversation that they for- 

 got where they were, and thus the artist was enabled to catch 

 the natural and striking expression of the great ornithologist." 

 See "The King Cameos of Audubon," by C. Hart Merriam 

 (Bibl. No. 226), who published the first account of this pho- 

 tograph, and of the previously mentioned Kennard cast, with 

 reproductions, in 1908. No trace of the original cameos, which 

 were cut in shell, has yet been found. The Farwell photo- 

 graph has been reproduced as a medallion on the covers of the 

 present work. 



19. 1848-49 (?). A daguerreotype made by Brady, in New 



York, probably before 1850, since it was pub- 

 lished in that year, and a considerable interval 

 of time is clearly represented between this first 

 camera likeness and the last which was ever 

 made of the naturalist (see No. 20, and Vol. II, 

 p. 280). This daguerreotype was first published 

 as a steel engraving by D'Avignon, in Lester's 

 Gallery of Illustrious Americans (for which it 

 was, in all probability, originally made), in New 

 York, 1850 (see Bibliography No. 62). 



The same sun portrait was again engraved 

 on steel (size 4 1 / 4 by 3*4 inches) by Nordheim, 

 and published by Hermann J. Meyer, 164 Wil- 

 liam Street, New York. It also appeared as a 



