Sep 27, 2018 - Sale 2486

Sale 2486 - Lot 88

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(PRINTS--1860 CAMPAIGN.) Abraham Lincoln, Republican Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States. Hand-colored lithograph, 16 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches; moderate dampstaining and foxing, tape mount remnants on top edge, unrelated pencil notations on verso from 1895. In period frame with large inked stamp of Northrop's Gallery of Art, New Milford, CT on verso. Hartford, CT: E.B. & E.C. Kellogg, [1860]

Additional Details

A campaign print based on Brady's Cooper Union photograph (Ostendorf O-17), the usual source for the eastern engravers in this period. The westerners tended to use Hesler's 1857 photograph as their source. Lincoln Image, page 21.