Dec 13, 2018 - Sale 2496

Sale 2496 - Lot 362

Price Realized: $ 188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
HOHENSTEIN, ANTON (after). Native & Foreign or A Hint for the Know Nothings. Tinted lithograph with additional hand-color by Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse. 27 3/4x19 3/4 inches sheet size, wide margins; washed with minor marginal repairs; contemporary Eastlake-style wood and gilt frame. New York: Emile Seitz, 1854

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Scarce lithograph depicting a tatty youngster embodying the anti-immigrant proclivity of the Know Nothing movement which evolved into the American Party in the mid 1850's; a short-lived xenophobic political crowd generally overcome by basic civil liberties and common decency, yet whose tenets somehow remain at issue in modern society. No copies traced.