Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 183

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.) Ritchie, Alexander H. engraver; after Carpenter. The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet. Lithograph, 29 1/2 x 40 inches; mounted on canvas and tacked to early wooden stretchers; minor foxing, small dampstain in lower left corner. Np: Francis Bicknell Carpenter, 1866
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From a fifteen-foot painting done over six months at the White House in 1864, based on interviews with Lincoln and sittings with the cabinet members. The original painting is now in the collection of the United States Senate. Depicted are Edwin M. Stanton, Salmon P. Chase, President Lincoln, Gideon Welles, Caleb B. Smith, William H. Seward, Montgomery Blair, and Edward Bates. See Francis Bicknell Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln, 1866.