Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 123

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CONGRESS.) Congressional Pugilists. Engraving, 7 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches; moderate foxing, early pencil notes in margins. Philadelphia, 15 February 1798
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A caricature of a brawl between two congressmen at Congress Hall: Roger Griswold of Connecticut (bearing the club) and Matthew Lyon of Vermont (with the tongs). Second state, without names added to the outer edges of the plate, though extensive identifying information is added in pencil in the margins. Murrell, A History of American Graphic Humor, I:42-44; Reilly 1798-1; Snyder, City of Independence, 178A.