Apr 27, 2017 - Sale 2444

Sale 2444 - Lot 308

Price Realized: $ 390
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(WASHINGTON, GEORGE.) Eulogium Sacred to the Memory of the Illustrious George Washington, Columbia's Great and Successful Son. Engraving, 16 1/4 x 20 3/4 inches; chipped and worn at edges, closed tear entering portrait area, moderate soiling, conserved and laid down on modern heavy paper. New York, 1817
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Includes a poetic tribute to Washington engraved in a calligraphic hand around a smaller oval portrait. It was designed, written and published by penmanship instructor Benjamin Owen Tyler, and engraved by Peter Maverick of Newark, NJ. Hart 796b (third state, originally published in 1815); Nash, American Penmanship 83.