Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 137

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CONGRESS.) Congressional Pugilists. Engraving, 7 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches; laid down on heavy board and matted. (MRS) 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, with names added to the outer edges of the plate, but without the "17" added to the later restrikes. Murrell, A History of American Graphic Humor, I:42-44; Reilly 1798-1; Snyder, City of Independence, 178B.