Raynor HCA 2013-07
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/18/2013
Broadside, 20” x 24,” Boston, B.B. Russell, 1865, light foxing to margins, one small repairable tear at top of sheet. VG. Scarce broadside edition of one of the great documents of human freedom. Appearing at the top is a portrait of Lincoln above an eagle, flanked by two vignettes. The image on the left shows a woman being sold at a slave auction, while the image on the right shows free black carpenters planing boards in a workshop. A third vignette at the bottom center portrays the ruin visited upon a family in the slave-holding South, represented by a weeping woman and her disabled veteran husband with their dilapidated house in the background, opposite the prosperity attending freedom and reliance upon one's own labor, represented by men working in a field with a handsome farmhouse in the background. This is one of the most artistic of the illustrated editions. A handsome piece.
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