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

148 c   (PRINTS—MEMORIAL.) Group of 10 prints of Lincoln from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1899-circa 1940s [300/400] Thomas Johnston. Untitled etching, 21 x 14 inches, signed by the artist in pencil. NewYork: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1899 * Rea after Deigendesch.“Lincoln: He was aType of the True Elder Race.” Engraving, 28 x 22 inches. Lancaster, PA: McCaskey, 1899 * RuthWitzel Bilane (1915-2007). Untitled etching after the Marshall print, 28 x 22 inches, signed by the artist in pencil. Union, NJ, undated *Timothy Cole. Untitled engraving, 14 x 11 inches. Np: Helen Fagg, 1928 * Group of 5 etchings of Lincoln scenes by Bernhardt Wall, 4 of them matted and signed in pencil, circa 1940s * “Abraham Lincoln as he Appeared Directly after his Nomination in 1860” (gravure of Hesler photograph), 15 1 / 4 x 11 inches. New York: H.C. Brown & Co., undated. 149 149 c   (PRINTS—FAMILY.) [Hohenstein, Anton.] President Lincoln and his Family. Hand-colored lithograph, 19 1 / 4 x 25 1 / 4 inches to sight; toned with several short tears, minor dampstaining in margins; not examined out of period gilt gesso frame. Philadelphia: Joseph Hoover, [1865] [300/400] A charmingly inept adaptation of Alexander Gardner’s photograph of Lincoln with his son Tad. This print inspired Holzer’s first article on Lincoln iconography in 1974. “Almost comically malproportioned . . . Lincoln’s legs are shortened and his torso enlarged, as if it had been inflated with air”—Lincoln Image, page 184.