{"id":1369,"date":"2025-03-21T04:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T04:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/?page_id=1369"},"modified":"2026-08-31T23:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:20:25","slug":"lot-79","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/?page_id=1369","title":{"rendered":"Lot 79"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lot 79<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-columns stk-block-columns stk-block stk-77daca4\" data-block-id=\"77daca4\"><style>.stk-77daca4 {margin-bottom:0px !important;}<\/style><div class=\"stk-row stk-inner-blocks stk-block-content stk-content-align stk-77daca4-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-column stk-block-column stk-column stk-block stk-6d08e75\" data-v=\"4\" data-block-id=\"6d08e75\"><div class=\"stk-column-wrapper stk-block-column__content stk-container stk-6d08e75-container stk--no-background stk--no-padding\"><div class=\"stk-block-content stk-inner-blocks stk-6d08e75-inner-blocks\">\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">Strong cdv of writer Francis Brett Hart. Known professionally as Bret Harte he was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches. Harte moved from California to the eastern U.S. and later to Europe. His Gold Rush tales have been those most often reprinted, adapted, and admired. In 1878 Harte accepted the position of United States Consul in the town of Krefeld, Germany after campaigning for the job. Mark Twain had been a friend and supporter of Harte&#8217;s until a substantial falling out, and he had previously tried to block any appointment for Harte. In a letter to William Dean Howells, he complained that Harte would be an embarrassment to the United States because, as he wrote, &#8220;Harte is a liar, a thief, a swindler, a snob, a sot, a sponge, a coward, a Jeremy Diddler, he is brim full of treachery&#8230; To send this nasty creature to puke upon the American name in a foreign land is too much.\u201d This vignette cdv has extremely strong tones and contrast with a hint of wear as seen. By Sarony, NY. There is a similar cabinet card also by Sarony in the National Portrait Gallery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">Opening bid: $45<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-column stk-block-column stk-column stk-block stk-9f3e16e\" data-v=\"4\" data-block-id=\"9f3e16e\"><div class=\"stk-column-wrapper stk-block-column__content stk-container stk-9f3e16e-container stk--no-background stk--no-padding\"><div class=\"stk-block-content stk-inner-blocks stk-9f3e16e-inner-blocks\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"921\" src=\"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lot79.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lot79.jpg 600w, https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lot79-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lot79-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"874\" height=\"894\" src=\"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lot79a.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lot79a.jpg 874w, https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lot79a-147x150.jpg 147w, https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lot79a-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lot79a-767x785.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lot 79 Strong cdv of writer Francis Brett Hart. Known professionally as Bret Harte he was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1369","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":7}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5882,"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1369\/revisions\/5882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}