Mar 28, 2019 - Sale 2503

Sale 2503 - Lot 77

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Jenkins, F.A., lithographer. John Brown. Lithograph on chine de collé paper, 15 3/4 x 13 inches oval, mounted on heavy wove paper as issued, 17 x 13 1/2 inches, with facsimile signature "John Brown"; cropped in upper margin, 3 repaired closed tears (one extending into image) and other minor wear, backed with archival tissue. Boston: C.H. Brainard, 1860
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A portrait of the militant abolitionist, produced in the year of his death after a well-known photograph (here credited as being "taken for J.H. Webb"). The publisher Charles H. Brainard was active in Boston for a fairly short period, but also commissioned an important campaign portrait of Abraham Lincoln (see Swann sale 2486, lot 85) done in much the same style.
We can trace no other examples of this accomplished portrait in OCLC or at auction.