Sale 2486, Part I - The Harold Holzer Collection of Lincolniana, September 27, 2018
152 c (PRINTS—MODERN.) Group of 13 modern prints of Lincoln by notable artists. Various sizes and conditions. Vp, 2003-16 [300/400] RichardWengenroth. 6 prints, each about 20 x 17 inches, each numbered “1/25,” each signed and personally inscribed to Holzer in pencil at the Lincoln Forum, 2003-07 and undated * Michael Albert. “Gettysburg Address.” 17 x 11 inches, 2015 print, signed in 2016 * Doug Chayka. Lithograph, 14 x 11 inches, of an untitled Cubist-style Lincoln watercolor. Np, 2009 * Victor Juhasz. [New Team of Rivals.] 14 1 / 2 x 12 3 / 4 inches to sight, print of 19 November 2008 New York Observer cover illustration depicting Obama, Biden and the Clintons in 19th-century garb; signed and inscribed by the artist to Holzer, 14 December 2008 * Dan Christoffel. “With Malice Toward None.” 25 x 17 inches, #13 of 50, signed in pencil, undated * Photograph of a portrait by Enrique Alejandro Urcola, 11 3 / 4 x 7 3 / 4 inches (presented to Holzer in Argentina in 2015) * Elliott Banfield. Print of a caricature of standing Lincoln as published in the New York Observer, signed in pencil by the artist, 27 September 2004 * Edward Lam. Group portrait of Lincoln, Stanton, Seward, Chase, and Bates. 11 x 8 1 / 2 inches, signed and dated 2005. 152 153 153 c (PRINTS—CIVIL WAR.) [Hoyer & Ludwig.] President Jefferson Davis Arriving in the Field of Battle at Bull’s Run. Hand-colored lithograph, 14 x 9 3 / 4 inches; 1-inch repaired closed tear, minor soiling, mount remnants on verso. [Richmond, VA, circa 1861] [500/750] An early Confederate engraving of their president. “Hoyer and Ludwig leaped to the conclusion that Davis went to Bull Run as a general. Certainly, however, they were wrong to present him in full military uniform. . . . Hearing the same news that had electrified the rest of the Confederacy—that President Davis had taken the field—Hoyer and Ludwig apparently seized on an available military equestrian portrait and quickly copied it, using a Davis photograph for a head”—Confederate Image, pages 15-16. 154 c (PRINTS—CIVILWAR.) Group of 4 Civil War prints. Various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1876-1907 [500/750] Kurz & Allison. “The Battle of Gettysburg.” Chromolithograph, 19 1 / 2 x 26 1 / 2 inches to sight. Chicago, 1884 * Forbes. “Coffee Coolers.” Proof of plate 12 from his “Life Studies of the Great Army,” 19 x 24 inches. Np, circa 1876 * Prang. “Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.” Chromolithograph, 17 x 23 1 / 2 inches. Boston, 1887 * Matthews after Littlepage. “Last of the Wooden Navy: Battle Between the Merrimac (Virginia) and the U.S. Fleet.” Chromolithograph, 11 1 / 4 x 20 inches to sight. Washington: Graham, 1907.
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