Sep 30, 2021 - Sale 2580

Sale 2580 - Lot 242

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(GEORGE WASHINGTON.) Peter Maverick, engraver; after Tyler. Eulogium Sacred to the Memory of the Illustrious George Washington. Engraving, 16 3/4 x 22 inches; vertical fold, light mount discoloration on left edge, minor foxing, tipped into archival mat. New York, 1817

Additional Details

Includes a poetic tribute to Washington engraved in a calligraphic hand around a smaller oval portrait. It was designed, written and published by penmanship instructor Benjamin Owen Tyler, and engraved by Peter Maverick of Newark, NJ. Hart 796b (third state, originally published in 1815); Nash, American Penmanship 83.