Mar 29, 2018 - Sale 2471

Sale 2471 - Lot 62

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Watts, James W., engraver; after Herrick. Reading the Emancipation Proclamation. Engraving, 19 x 23 inches; moderate foxing, dampstaining in lower right corner. [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.