ORIGINAL- GENERAL GRANT AND HIS FAMILY. HAND COLORED ENGRAVING by A.L.WEISE 1866

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ORIGINAL- GENERAL GRANT AND HIS FAMILY. HAND COLORED ENGRAVING by A.L.WEISE 1866 1st EDITION
SELDOM SEEN
HAND COLORED
BLACK AND WHITE LITHOGRAPH OF ULYSSES S. GRANT AND HIS FAMILY 1st EDITION.
In the years directly after the Civil War, with wartime animosities still fresh in the nation’s consciousness, prints depicting famous men with their families and stressing harmonious domestic life were in vogue. After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in April 1865, printmakers published many prints depicting him either separately or with members of his family.
In the same years at least five different artists depicted Ulysses S. Grant with his wife Julia and their 4 children, often in domestic settings similar to how Lincoln's family was represented. Portraying Grant like this after numerous other portraits had shown him as a Union general, may have helped elect him president in 1868. Also politically useful with many Southerners and Northern Copperheads was the fact that his wife Julia’s father had owned slaves in her native Missouri.
OUTER  TRIM DIMENSIONS: 25 5/8" x 20"
PAPER THICKNESS .010"
COLORS ARE BRIGHT.
PRINTED IN PHILIDELPHIA 1866.
BELOW THE IMAGE FROM RIGHT TO LEFT :
PUBLISHED BY: JOHN SMITH, 710 SANSOM ST. , PHILADELPHIA
JAMES  SMITH AW 120 W  6th ST. CINCINNATI , OHIO
ENTERED ACCORDING TO AN ACT OF CONGRESS IN THE YEAR 1866 BY JOHN SMITH IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
ENGRAVED BY:  AUGUSTUS L. WEISE & Co.
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CONDITION IS FINE OVERALL WITH SOME: SOMEWHAT FRAGILE. SOME DAMP STAINING. AGE TONING HARDLY NOTICEABLE ON THE FRONT. LIGHT HANDLING AROUND THE EDGES. SLIGHT UNDER TRIMMING ON THE EDGES AFFECTING A TINY PART OF THE EAGLE SHIELD VIGNETTE AT THE BOTTOM. A FEW SMALL EDGE CHIPS AROUND THE EDGES. SOME CRACKS WITH MUCH EARLIER PROACTIVE CONSERVATION (VISIBLE ON THE REVERSE OF THE ENGRAVING)
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JUST CAME OUT OF AN LATE 20th CENTURY PICTURE FRAME THAT HELPED TO PRESERVE IT FOR ITS 155 YEARS.
WILL SHIP FLAT TO AVOID DAMAGE.
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