Important Americana
Catalogue Information: 537 lots | 530 with images
Date: 2005
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
USA
Lot 1: WILLIAM GUY WALL (AFTER)
Ten hand-colored aquatints, engraved by John Hill, from the portfolio published by Henry Megarey, New York, 1820, on wove paper, with wide margins and lower publication lines, in good condition, except each with discoloration and minor surface soilin [...more]
Lot 2: W.H. BARTLETT (AFTER)
Seventeen steel engravings with hand-coloring, 1839-42, on wove paper, with margins, pale light-stain, laid down, framed (one examined out of frame) (17 prints)
Lot 3: JOHN BACHMANN
Hand-colored lithograph with beige tint stone, c. 1849, on heavy wove paper, with margins, generally in good condition apart from pale light- and mat stain, the margins with surface soiling, a few rubbed areas, creasing, a one inch tear at bottom, th [...more]
Lot 4: ROBERT JOHN THORNTON (PUBLISHER)
Mezzotint printed in colors, with hand-coloring, the second (final) state, after Philip Reinagle, 1798, on heavy wove paper, with margins, in good condition apart from pale light-stain, faint soiling and a few fox marks in the margins, the verso with [...more]
Lot 5: GEORGE CATLIN (AFTER)
The set of twenty-five hand-colored lithographs, by McGahey, printed by Day and Haghe Lith., published by George Catlin, 1844-45, with wide margins, generally in good condition except each sheet with pale mat stain and light soiling in the margins, J [...more]
