Baby Portrait

Salt Lake City, UT: C. R. Savage Art Bazar, 1895. Very good. Albumen panorama [10 cm x 20 cm] photograph on a decoratively embossed gray mount [16.5 cm x 30.5 cm] with C.R. Savage - Art Bazar, Salt Lake City, Utah' blind stamped below the image. Light general wear. Panoramic image of one baby seated and wearing a white gown, captured in three different poses. A curious, less-typical Savage panorama on an uncommon mount. Not seen by us before.

Charles Roscoe Savage (1832-1909) was a prominent and prolific photographer, who forged a successful career within his Salt Lake City community and traveled extensively throughout the West taking photographs and socializing with the leading photographers of the time, such as Carelton Watkins, Edward Wilson, Timothy O'Sullivan, Alfred Hart and A. J. Russell. Savage stands out as having been the photographer of several of the most celebrated images taken at the celebration of the joining of the transcontinental railroads at Promontory Point, Utah in 1869. He is additionally recognized for taking the first photographs of what would later become Zion National Park, as well as recording the construction of the Mormon Temple and Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. An attractive and unique photograph.