Nov 21, 2024 - Sale 2687

Sale 2687 - Lot 225

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(UNITED STATES.) Andrew B. Graham, lithographer. Display printing of the Great Seal of the United States. Chromolithograph, 22¼ x 23¼ inches, minimal toning and edge wear, edge-mounted to period board. Washington, DC, circa 1889-1909
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This print closely follows the 1885 redesign of the Great Seal by James Horton Whitehouse, which has been in use ever since. The lithographer, Andrew Butler Graham (1852-1909), was a government draftsman until taking over the family lithography firm in 1889.