Mar 27, 2014 - Sale 2342

Sale 2342 - Lot 84

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) ANONYMOUS. Compromise With The South If McClellan is President. Wood engraving, 10 x 14-7/8 inches, matted and framed. [Np, circa 1864]

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A complex engraving showing a magnanimous Jefferson Davis extending his hand to a one-legged Union soldier, bent over, his head bowed. One of the most unusual political engravings of the period we have ever seen. rare. only one other example located, at ucla berkeley.