2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/26/2025
Each of the engraved images are uncolored, striking representatives, 11-1/2” x 16-1/2”, and withdrawn from “Portrait Gallery, American Statesmen and Generals, Being a series of Proof Engravings mostly taken at the time of life when their reputations were made ... INDIA PROOFS (One Hundred Copies),” New York, Virtue & Yorston 12 Dey St. Includes, President Lincoln, signed in the plate “Eng. A.H. Ritchie”. The engraving is after Mathew Brady in Washington, DC, on 8 January 1864 (O-86) CDV. ... plus, General U.S. Grant, 3/4 standing, after photograph by Frederick, 1865. ... plus, General James Garfield, vignetted chest up, right facing, after Brady photo, c 1864. Upper left corner is lightly water stained. Alexander Hay Ritchie (1822-1895) was a Scottish-born American artist and engraver.
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