(VIRGINIA) The Burning of the Theatre in Richmond Virginia

Sale 2344 - Lot 268

Price Realized: $ 4,000

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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

(VIRGINIA.) The Burning of the Theatre in Richmond, Virginia . . . by which Awful Calamity Upwards of One Hundred of its Most Valuable Citizens Suddenly Lost Their Lives. Hand-colored aquatint, 15 x 17 3/4 inches; two closed tears on upper edge, other minor wear, minimal dampstaining, mounted on original stretchers with partial printed label from original Philadelphia framer, encased in modern mat and laid into early frame. Philadelphia: B. Tanner, 1812

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See Meredith Baker's recent "The Richmond Theater Fire: Early America's First Great Disaster," which lauds the print for being "rooted in true first-person descriptions" (page 67). Weddell, Richmond in Old Prints, plate XII. No other copies known at auction since 1914.