Sep 30, 2010 - Sale 2223

Sale 2223 - Lot 211

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(WASHINGTON, GEORGE.) Chillas, David; lithographer; after [Martin] Thurwanger. Patriæ Pater. Our Country, Its Agriculture, Commerce, Arts and Manufactures. Chromolithograph, 29 x 21 3/4 inches; moderate creasing, edge wear, short tears, extensive verso tape repairs visible on right margin, inked catalogue number on verso. Philadelphia, 1853
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An attractive composition dominated by an inset Washington portrait, apparently commemorating the American showing at London's 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition. Produced by two of the more obscure American lithographers: "No great amount of [Chillas's] work has come my way . . . [Thurwanger] was unexcelled in pen lithography. He did work here but I have no record of it"--Peters, America on Stone, pages 140 and 385. The only record found of this print is Mitchell, Collection of Engraved Portraits, 90, which describes it as "rare."