2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/25/2025
Print, 10-1/2” x 9”, hand tinted titled “The First of May 1865 or Genl Moving Day in Richmond VA.”, New York: H .& W. Voight, 1865. An amusing cartoon anticipating the end of the Civil War in Richmond, as Robert E. Lee collects swords, the Treasury Secretary George Trenholm hauls worthless Confederate Bonds, and the building behind bares the signs "Sheriff Sale" and "To Let / Apply Lincoln and Co" while bystanders look on and laugh. This piece was probably published earlier than the state date of May, as it is unlikely the cartoonist would have referred to Lincoln after the assassination.
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