Very Rare Oversize Signed Photograph of Alexander Graham Bell, Inscribed to His Niece
A fine profile portrait of the eminent inventor of the telephone, 10 by 14 inches and taken circa 1910, embossed with the stamp of the noted photography studio “Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.” The photograph is inscribed by Bell “To Mrs. Roland Granville Fortescue, with much love, from her uncle, Alexander Graham...
A fine profile portrait of the eminent inventor of the telephone, 10 by 14 inches and taken circa 1910, embossed with the stamp of the noted photography studio “Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.” The photograph is inscribed by Bell “To Mrs. Roland Granville Fortescue, with much love, from her uncle, Alexander Graham Bell.”
Grace Hubbard Fortescue (née Grace Hubbard Bell) was Bell’s niece, and her husband Granville Fortescue was a Rough Rider who served with his cousin Theodore Roosevelt in Cuba. Grace married Roland Fortescue in 1910, so this may have been a wedding gift.
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