Sale 2486, Part I - The Harold Holzer Collection of Lincolniana, September 27, 2018

87 c   (PRINTS—1860 CAMPAIGN.) Sartain, Samuel, engraver; after Brown. Both states of Sartain’s early campaign portrait. Pair of mezzotints, size and condition as noted. Philadelphia, 1860 and 1861 [700/1,000] This portrait originated with an ambrotype photograph by Preston Butler on 13 August 1860, which was used as a reference for John Henry Brown’s specially commissioned miniature portrait painted from life over the next two weeks, a portrait which Lincoln declared “without fault.” Judge John Meredith Read of Pennsylvania then rushed the portrait out to Philadelphia for engraving as a campaign print. Sartain took at least three weeks to complete the job, and the portrait did not reach the campaign until mid-October, by which point the election was well in hand. The first state has no title, only the facsimile signature “A. Lincoln”; it measures 10 3 / 4 x 8 3 / 4 inches. James Irwin of Philadelphia is given as the publisher. The second state adds a beard and the title “16th President of the United States,” and measures 10 x 7 3 / 4 inches; Sartain is listed as the publisher as well as being the engraver. See Lincoln Image, pages 58-66. 88 89 88 c   (PRINTS—1860 CAMPAIGN.) Abraham Lincoln, Republican Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States. Hand-colored lithograph, 16 1 / 4 x 12 3 / 4 inches; moderate dampstaining and foxing, tape mount remnants on top edge, unrelated pencil notations on verso from 1895. In period frame with large inked stamp of Northrop’s Gallery of Art, New Milford, CT on verso. Hartford, CT: E.B. & E.C. Kellogg, [1860] [500/750] A campaign print based on Brady’s Cooper Union photograph (Ostendorf O-17), the usual source for the eastern engravers in this period. The westerners tended to use Hesler’s 1857 photograph as their source. Lincoln Image, page 21. 89 c   (PRINTS—1860 CAMPAIGN.) Abraham Lincoln, Republican Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States. Hand-colored lithograph, 16 3 / 4 x 13 inches; moderate foxing and several tears in margins, tape mount remnants on verso. Hartford, CT: George Whiting, [1860] [600/900] A mirror image of the preceding pose.