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

139 c   (PRINTS—MEMORIAL.) Nahl, C.; lithographer. To Abraham Lincoln, the Best Beloved of the Nation, in Memoriam. Lithograph, 24 3 / 4 x 19 3 / 4 inches, on thin paper laid down on original heavier mount with printed title as issued; mount remnants on verso, minor dampstaining in margins. San Francisco, CA: Puck, circa 1865 (printed by L. Nagel) [800/1,200] A dramatic and unusual Californian response to Lincoln’s passing. Grieving over Lincoln’s tomb are a helmeted Minerva (Roman goddess of war) and a freedman, overlooking the desolation of war, the slain beast of the Confederacy, and shackles broken by the “Emancipation Act.” A ghostly angel floats above it all. See Holzer and Gabbard, “Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment,” pages 242-4 (illustrating this copy). We trace 4 institutional copies and no other examples at auction. 140 140 c   (PRINTS—MEMORIAL.) Schultz, C., lithographer. Fraternité Universelle. Tinted lithograph, 18 3 / 4 x 23 inches; 3 vertical folds, short closed tears on top edge, tape reinforcement at edges on verso. Paris: Lemercier & Cie, circa 1865-70 (printed be Milbeck) [1,200/1,800] At the center of the scene is Lincoln clasping hands with Washington and a freedman, with Socrates and Gutenberg behind them. “The most extraordinary of the French prints is one that emphasizes not Lincoln’s proximity to savagery, but his contributions to civilization. . . . In America, printmakers rarely thought in terms of an international pantheon”—Boritt, Neely & Holzer, “The European Image of Abraham Lincoln,” Winterthur Portfolio 21:2/3 (Summer 1986), pages 166-168. Offered here is a proof printing; the Library of Congress example is printed chine-collé or with a second tintstone and has extensive caption information not seen here. 2 copies in OCLC, and none others traced at auction.