2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Uncolored Print, “Geo(rge) G(ordon). Meade” on horseback with cap waving to the cavalry behind him.. Folio, ca. 12-1/4” x 16-1/2”, Lithograph by Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. Very good condition. Rare. Meade displayed masterly ability throughout the three days' battle of Gettysburg. Perhaps in late 1861, but certainly by mid-1862, the Cincinnati lithographic firm of Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. began to issue a series of portraits of Civil War figures: politicians as well as military and naval officers. These prints, which the firm continued to issue at least as late as 1864. The firm issued seventy-nine different prints of sixty-nine different Union politicians and officers. The Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. prints were issued separately for those in the mid-west who wanted to have these images of Union heroes.
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