Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
On the stetcher (no frame) Lincoln portrait, oval image 13-1/2’ 16-1/2”, by E.C. Middleton, Cincinnati,1864. Minor repair in the background, occasional marr yet reasonable condition. VG. Based on a photograph by Anthony Berger taken at Mathew Brady’s Washington studio on February 9, 1864. Middleton, the publisher, used a unique method of lithography—printing on canvas-backed paper in oil-based inks—to produce color images of unusually high quality that were still affordable. Middleton had a copy sent to the president, who offered this critique in a December 30, 1864 letter; “Your picture . . . is, in the main, very good. From a line across immediately above the eye-brows, downward it appears to me perfect. ....”
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