?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(BOSTON.) J.W. Rutter, after. Iron Light House on Minots Ledge, Massachusetts Bay.From a Drawing for Which a Premium was Awarded at the Late Mechanix's Fair. Lighted First Time Jany. 1st, 1850. Built Under the Direction of Capt. W.H. Swift, Late of the United States Engineers. Destroyed in the Gale of April 16th, 1851, Joseph Wilson and Joseph Antone, Assistant Keepers, Drowned. 3-stone tinted lithograph of the Minot's Ledge steel-pier lighthouse within a trompe l'oeil window border. 23x17 3/4 inches sheet size, wide margins; printer's registration pinhole at upper right; minor age toning or foxing, but no tears or other damages; attractive period Eastlake-style wood frame with ebonized details and gilt fillet. OCLC shows 3 institutional copies; one at auction. Boston: Fetridge & Co., 1851
