Jun 27, 2024 - Sale 2675

Sale 2675 - Lot 274

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) James W. Watts, engraver; after Herrick. Reading the Emancipation Proclamation. Engraving, 18½ x 20¼ inches; vertical folds, conservation including 1-inch area on lower edge restored. [Hartford, CT]: Lucius Stebbins, 1864
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By torchlight, a Union soldier reads a newspaper printing of the proclamation to a group of anxious freedmen in a cabin. With an inset portrait of Lincoln in the lower margin. Neely & Holzer, Union Image, page 232.