Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 195

Price Realized: $ 2,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.) [Maurer, Louis; artist.] The Rail Candidate. Lithograph, 13 x 17 3/4 inches; minor foxing and dampstaining, mat toning, two holes punched in top margin; mount remnants on verso. New York: Currier & Ives, 1860
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Candidate Lincoln rides uncomfortably on the Republican Party platform rail supported by Horace Greeley and an African-American laborer, both intended to discredit Lincoln among more conservative voters. "The artist's own political opinions did not enter into the matter. Mr. Maurer himself voted for Lincoln"--Peters, Currier & Ives, 1674 and page 84. Reilly 1860-31.