Albumen silver print. Metropolitan museum of art. Gilman collection, purchase, ann tenenbaum and thomas h. Lee gift, 2005. Accession number: 2005. 100. 120. This photograph - n° 18 of the sery - "became the subject of a copyright infringement suit by sarony against the burrow-giles lithographic company, which had marketed unauthorized lithograph trade cards containing the image. The federal trial court for the southern district of new york awarded a $610 judgment to sarony (the equivalent today of over $13,000). The judgment was affirmed by the u. S. Circuit court for the southern district of new york, and subsequently by the supreme court of the united states" [1] (cf. Burrow-giles lithographic co. V. Sarony). Date: 1882.
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