Nov 17, 2016 - Sale 2432

Sale 2432 - Lot 98

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CALIFORNIA.) Casse Fréres & St. Gaudens, engravers; after Scherer. Pair of lithographs depicting a French Gold Rush miner. Hand-colored lithographs, each about 10 x 13 1/2 inches; laid down in later decorative mats, moderate foxing, "Départ pour la Californie" with moderate adhesion loss in image area, "Arrivée en Californie" with 2-inch closed tear just entering image. Paris: Bés et Dubreuil, circa 1849
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These charming French prints on the Gold Rush were issued as the first two of a series of four. They show a young man departing for California in the embrace of his family, and then arriving triumphantly with his trunk and pick. Note the Chinese man smoking a pipe in the background of the latter. They are undated, but these engravers and publishers worked together on other projects in 1848. Per OCLC, the only other known copies are at Yale, which holds the complete set; none have been traced at auction.