Sep 27, 2018 - Sale 2486

Sale 2486 - Lot 127

Price Realized: $ 488
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
WITH ITS SCARCE ADVERTISING CIRCULAR (PRINTS--SECOND TERM.) Sartain, John, artist; after E.D. Marchant. Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, from the Original Portrait . . . Painted in the White House in 1863. Mezzotint, 21 x 18 inches to sight, framed. Philadelphia: Bradley & Co., 1864

Additional Details

An important campaign print, done after an 1863 painting from life which subtly celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation. It is probably the only image of Lincoln in a white tie. Lincoln Image, page 108.
Offered with the 2-page circular by Bradley & Co., "A Portrait for All Time: Portrait of Abraham Lincoln," 11 x 8 1/2 inches; folds, foxing. None found in OCLC or at auction; the final acquisition for the Holzer collection.