Dec 12, 2002 - Sale 1955

Sale 1955 - Lot 316

Price Realized: $ 172
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(AMERICANA.) Banvard of the Mississippi. Tinted lithograph portrait of Banvard seated with sketchpad in hand on the banks of the Mississippi, 590x430 mm sheet size, ample margins with image filling most of the sheet; a few repaired tears in bottom margin, 100-mm repaired tear in left margin extending into the image, cleaned and bleached. London: Hanhart, circa 1850

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Banvard was an American-born artist known for his 1846 mammoth panorama of the Mississippi, which was shown in Great Britain and Europe to much acclaim. This portrait print is after a painting by an artist who has signed in the image, but whose signature is illegible.