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General Grant & His Family.

  • ARTIST: Frederick Schell

  • PUBLISHER: Published by Daughaday & Becker, 424 Walnut St. Philadelphia.

  • MEDIUM: Mixed-media engraving, hand colored,

    DATE: 1868

  • EDITION SIZE: 13 x 10" (332 x 255 mm).

  • DESCRIPTION: Engraved by Samuel Sartain. Issued in 1868 – the year of Grant’s first presidential campaign. Grant and his eldest son are mounted and in uniform, depicted with his wife, Julia, his other children and the family dog. At rear is a faint view of the U.S. Capitol.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition and color save repairs to outer margins.

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