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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.
Emancipation
Proclamation.
A calligraphic portrait rendering of Lincoln as the Proclamation 12 x 9
inches (image size) on a 15 x 12 inch sheet; some light toning.
Iowa: W. H. Pratt, 1865
[1,500/2,500]
One of the more inventive and attractive versions of the Proclamation. Pratt accomplished this
by a rendering of Lincoln’s portrait, using the Proclamation in calligraphic form with light and
dark pen strokes. Eberstadt, 40.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.
Emancipation
Proclamation.
A calligraphic portrait rendering of Lincoln as the Proclamation within an
elaborate border with two engraved vignettes at the bottom corners and the American
Eagle and “E Pluribus Unum” at the top center, 22 x 17 inches; archivally paper-backed
with a few faint signs of repair, otherwise a bright, fresh copy.
Philadelphia: Duval, 1865
[3,000/4,000]
A variant on the Pratt calligraphic version of the Proclamation. Eberstadt 48.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.)
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.
Reading the
Emancipation Proclamation.
Steel
engraving by J. W. Watts, 13 x 17
1
⁄
2
inches;
the very slightest discoloration at the bot-
tom margin from having been washed,
not affecting the image at all.
Connecticut: Lucius Stebbins, 1864
[800/1,200]
