Sep 30, 2021 - Sale 2580

Sale 2580 - Lot 153

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.) A.H. Ritchie, engraver; after Carpenter. The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet. Stipple engraving, 25 x 35 1/2 inches to sight; laid down on board, not examined out of mid-20th century mat, 2 repaired closed tears (7 and 4 inches) in image area), copyright line partly obscured. No place: Francis Bicknell Carpenter, 1866
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From a fifteen-foot painting by Francis B. Carpenter done over six months at the White House in 1864, based on interviews with Lincoln and sittings with the cabinet members. The original painting now hangs in the United States Capitol. Depicted are Edwin M. Stanton, Salmon P. Chase, President Lincoln, Gideon Welles, Caleb B. Smith, William H. Seward, Montgomery Blair, and Edward Bates. It was one of the best-selling prints of the century. See Francis Bicknell Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln, 1866; and Lincoln Image, pages 110-126.