Price: $350.00
SKU: 102078
PUBLISHER: Published by A. Kidder.
MEDIUM: Engraving, printed Chine-colle.
DATE: 1864 (c. 1899)
EDITION SIZE: Image size 3 7/8 x 2 5/8" (99 x 68 cm)
DESCRIPTION: A rare miniature broadside celebrating the Emanucipation Proclimation. This highly detailed engraving shows a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, surounded by the text of the proclimation. it is entered according to Act of Congress in in 1864 by A. Kidder in New York and Mr. Lewis, 602 Broadway. No engraver noted.<br><br> Little is know about A. Kidder save for the fact that he was a publisher in Chicago. Becides this engraving, he was responciple for publishing several other broadsides of the Proclimation and several books on the Civil War. It is liklely that he was an abolitionist but nothing else could be found. <br><br> Edward Eberstadt wrote a comprehensive description of the early printings of the Emancipation Proclamation. This engraving is noted as 25 which he describes as a beautiful engraved miniature, hot pressed on cardboard. The portrait is especially fine... The RPB (Brown University Library) copies are struck from the same plate but each is on a different variety of paper, one on a heavy card and another on what seems to be proof-paper. This edition was facsimiled in The New Voice, vol. XVI, no. 32, New York, August 12, 1899.<br><br> This impression seems to be one of the "proof-paper" chine-colle impressions.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Fine condition. B/W
REFERENCE: Eberstadt, "Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation." No 25.
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