International Sale, Part XIX

Lincoln Mourning Broadside ca. 1865. Lincoln, This Monument is Inscribed in the Hearts of the American People…to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States of America, and the Great Emancipator of Four Millions of a Down-trodden Race. No place, no date, [ca.1865?] Broadside, 17x23”. Minor wear along folds, and edge wear. With several splits. Suitable for framing and a fine piece during the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. A stark memorial broadside made up of an elegiac text in a variety of types surmounted by a woodcut Union Star within a simple monumental form rendered with rules, the whole surrounded by a heavy black border. From the descendants of James Garfield. Not in Monaghan or the McClellan Collection. Rare and historic document.