Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 107

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BLACK RECONSTRUCTION POLITICIANS (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION---RECONSTRUCTION.) Bruce, Blanche, Hiram Revels, James Rapier, J. N. Rainey and John R. Lynch. Chromolithograph, 9-1/2x5-3/4 inches; some even toning to the edges. New York: W. Wellstood, circa 1870-1875
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An uncommon multi-portrait chromolithograph of five important black Reconstruction politicians. The only other copy of this engraving we could find is in the print collection of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and History in New York City.