May 26, 2016 - Sale 2417

Sale 2417 - Lot 333

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
FORBRIGER, ADOLPHUS. Vue Générale de Cincinnati (Ohio) Prise derrière Newport (Ky). Lithograph by Asselinau, printed by LeMercier. 20x27 inches sheet size. Paris: Wild Edit, [circa 1850]

Additional Details

An excellent, mid-19th century view of Cincinnati from Newport, Kentucky on the south side of the Ohio River, based upon a drawing by Adolphus Forbriger, an American artist and Cincinnati native. Forbriger founded in 1856 Ehrgott & Forbriger, a Cincinnati lithography firm, that was the leading lithograph producer in the mid-West prior to and during the Civil War.