Apr 16, 2019 - Sale 2505

Sale 2505 - Lot 218

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(WASHINGTON, GEORGE.) Chapin, John R.; artist. Original illustration art for an engraving, "Death of Washington." Ink and wash, 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches; laid down on original plain mount paper with pencil caption in lower margin; staining and mount remnants on verso. Np, [1870]

Additional Details

Illustrator John Reuben Chapin (1823-1904) executed this detailed rendering of Washington's deathbed for use in Benson Lossing's 1870 book "Washington and the American Republic." It was engraved by John Rogers and appeared in Volume III following page 556. with--a detached example of the completed engraving.