Sep 27, 2018 - Sale 2486

Sale 2486 - Lot 131

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(PRINTS--ASSASSINATION.) Group of 9 unframed prints of Lincoln's assassination, deathbed, and funeral. Various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1865 and undated

Additional Details

"The Martyr of Liberty." Lithograph, 15 x 10 1/2 inches, uncredited, with a quote from Macbeth serving as a subtitle. Np, undated (see Lincoln Image, pages 152-3) Upham. "The Nation is Weeping." Engraved songsheet, 8 x 5 inches, showing a New York mourning scene. New York: Magnus, circa 1865 Berghaus. "The Death-Bed of President Abraham Lincoln." Wood engraving, 7 1/2" x 11 inches, apparently from a book Kellogg. "Death of Abraham Lincoln." Lithograph, 10 x 14 inches. Hartford, undated Thayer & Russell. "We Cherish His Memory: A Neatly Printed Mourning Envelope." Illustrated advertisement for mourning envelopes. Boston, [1865] Currier & Ives. The Death-Bed of the Martyr President." Lithograph, 12 x 16 inches. New York, 1865 Uncredited. "Assassination of President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre." Lithograph, 13 x 17 3/4 inches. Np, undated (with a duplicate) Bufford. "Last Moments of President Lincoln." Boston, 1865 Uncredited. "Attempted Assassination of Secretary Seward." Hand-colored lithograph, 13 x 17 3/4. Np, undated. with--a copy of "Lincoln's Deathbed in Art and Memory" by Holzer & Williams.