Sep 27, 2018 - Sale 2486

Sale 2486 - Lot 246

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CIVIL WAR.) [Homer, Winslow; artist.] Partial set of "Life in Camp, Part One" cards. 7 (of 12) color lithographs, each about 4 x 2 1/2 inches; foxing, 3 of the set slightly cropped. [Boston: Louis Prang & Co., 1864]

Additional Details

Homer produced two sets of 12 cards each. This selection from the first set includes Surgeons Call Upset his Coffee Building Castles Stuck in the Mud Hard Tack Late for Roll Call A Shell is Coming. These rarely appear at auction; the only others we trace were a complete set of Part Two at Swann on 21 June 2016.