Apr 08, 2014 - Sale 2344

Sale 2344 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM; M. Stadtfeld, photographer. Proclamation, January the First, Eighteen Hundred and Sixty Three. Photograph, 18 1/2 x 13 inches, mounted on 27 x 21 1/2 inch board with printed credit line and copyright notice as issued; minor wear and soiling. Brooklyn, NY: Joseph E. Paine, 1864

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A photograph of Paine's calligraphic rendering of the Emancipation Proclamation, illustrated with a portrait of Lincoln, a cannon, and a soldier guarding a tree inscribed "1620 1776 1864." Eberstadt 38. Only one other known at auction, Swann sale, 3 December 1999, lot 825.