Dec 17, 2019 - Sale 2527

Sale 2527 - Lot 390

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
FULLER, GEORGE; after. Bound Down the River, Scene on the Lower Mississippi. Large-format lithograph with original hand-coloring. 22x29 3/4 inches sheet size, wide margins; mounted to board, age toned, several tears extending into image; would benefit from conservation. New York: M. Knoedler, 1860

Additional Details

Scarce lithograph depicting workers at nighttime loading bales of commercial cotton onto the Mississippi steamboat "Princess" for transport. The scene and format are much in the fashion of widely marketed nineteenth-century lithographs by Currier & Ives.