Dec 09, 2021 - Sale 2591

Sale 2591 - Lot 359

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CIVIL WAR.) J[ames] Queen. Citizens Volunteer Hospital, Corner of Broad St. & Washington Avenue, Philadelphia. Color-printed lithograph showing an exterior view and 10 interior vignettes of the Union military hospital neatly arranged within printed ornamental borders and draping American flags. 16 1/4x21 3/4 inches sheet size; moderately age-toned, small dampstain at lower margin; nicely presented in a contemporary gilt-fillet wooden frame with bubbled glass. OCLC locates 3 examples. Philadelphia: P.S. Duval, circa 1862

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"James Queen produced some of the finest chromolithographs in America... His vision was filled with unusual composition, and his works convey a singular personality, something all too often missing from the lithographs of his competitors... One of the truly inspired American chromolithographers of the 1860s" (Peter Marzio, The Democratic Art, page 37).