JOHNSON DAVID CLAYPOOLE The House that Jeff Built

Sale 2377 - Lot 132

Price Realized: $ 1,000

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

JOHNSON, DAVID CLAYPOOLE. The House that Jeff Built. Engraving, 11 x 14-1/2 inches (plate impression size); with wide margins; small close tear at the bottom right corner, in the margin and not affecting the image. Boston: D.C. Johnson, 1863

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a fine impression of this important engraving. Captions begin: "These are the shackles for the slaves that suppose/ Their limbs are their own from head to toes/ and are prone to believe, say all that you can/ That they shouldn't be sold by that thing called a man. . . .' The vignettes include: 1. the "House," showing the door to a slave pen; 2. bales of cotton, "By rebels call'd king;" 3. slaves at work picking cotton, "field-chattels that made cotton king;" 4. slave families despondently awaiting auction; 5. slave auctioneer, "the thing by some call'd a man;" 6. slave shackles."