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

133 c   (PRINTS—MEMORIAL.) Carquillat, after Allardet. Woven silk portrait of Lincoln. Silk, 10 x 8 inches to sight; stretched around wooden backing board and sewn into place on verso, dampstaining at edges (just entering image in one spot).Not examined out of period frame. [France]:Appold Schulthess et Cie, circa 1870s? [300/400] 134 c   (PRINTS—MEMORIAL.) Halpin, FrederickW., engraver; after Carpenter. Engraved portrait of Lincoln, inscribed by the artist to Lincoln’s secretaryWilliam O. Stoddard. Engraving, 22 3 / 4 x 17 1 / 2 to sight, with facsimile signature “Abraham Lincoln”; 4 horizontal creases, faint dampstain in upper right margin, not examined outside of frame; inscribed in pencil in lower margin “To William O. Stoddard, With the affectionate regards of the artist, Frank B. Carpenter, October 20, 1898.” New York: F.B. Carpenter, 1866 [500/750] This engraving was done after an original 1864 White House life study by Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1830-1900). Mary Lincoln endorsed it as “the most perfect likeness of my beloved husband that I have ever seen,” adding poignantly “The resemblance is so accurate in Mr. Halpin’s engraving that it will require far more calmness than I can now command to have it placed continuously before me.” Carpenter inscribed this example for former Lincoln secretary William O. Stoddard, a childhood friend (see also lots 3 and 55). See Stoddard’s memoirs, “Lincoln’s Third Secretary: The Memoirs of William O. Stoddard,” which were not published until 1955; this example is discussed on page 228. Provenance: sold by granddaughter Eleanor Holden Stoddard (1921-2014) to the consignor in 1988. 132 c   (PRINTS—MEMORIAL.) [Gugler, Henry, engraver; after Littlefield.] Lincoln. Engraving, 38 1 / 2 x 29 3 / 4 inches; several closed tears (some in image area), two tape repairs on verso, dampstaining, light edge wear. [New York: William Pate, 1869] [400/600] The original sketch was by John Harrison Littlefield (1835-1902), who had served as a law clerk for Lincoln as a youth and later served in Lincoln’s Treasury Department before pursuing a career as an artist. He based his portrait on the Brady “$5 bill” photograph, and then formed the Lincoln Publishing Company to create the best possible engraving from it. Banknote engraver Henry Gugler was paid $10,500 over three years to engrave the plate. The result is often called the largest Lincoln engraving ever produced. It’s certainly quite large, and unusually detailed. The original engraving plate is still preserved by the Milwaukee County Historical Society—as any “Gugler” can easily see. Lincoln Image, pages 209-211. 133 134