Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 34

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--COTTON.) Baumwolle (cotton.) Large chromolithograph, 25-3/4 x 33-3/4 inches; linen-backed with one small (2-1/4 x 1 inch) diagonal piece lacking from the bottom left corner. Leipzig: F. E. Wachsmuth, circa 1870's
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Depiction of slaves in a cotton field. The caption in the left corner, "[Goering]-Schmidt, Auslandische Kulturpflanzen" suggests this was part of Goering-Schmidt's large work on foreign horticulture. Goering-Schmidt produced a large series of prints like this that were meant to be hung in a class room as a teaching tool.