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Lot 99
Sale 1118 - African Americana
Feb 28, 2023
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$500 -
1,000
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$441
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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Alexander Hay RITCHIE (1822, 1895), engraver. after Francis Bicknell CARPENTER (1830-1900), artist.
First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.
First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Mezzotint engraving, n.d., image 32 1/4 x 21 in. (visible sheet 35 1/2 x 24 in.), on wove paper, toning, occasional creasing, housed in contemporary antique oak frame with original glass containing tiny bubbles, dating from the 1860s (to 41 1/4 x 29 1/2 in.).
A depiction of Abraham Lincoln reading the Emancipation Proclamation before his Cabinet including Edwin M. Stanton, Salmon P. Chase, Gideon Welles, Caleb B. Smith, William Seward, Montgomery Blair, and Edward Bates. The original painting by Carpenter hangs in the United States Capitol.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents