LOVELY KENTUCKY SCHOOLGIRL STILL LIFE,
LOUISVILLE, 1857

An unusual and very pleasing graphite drawing of a fruit compote, probably executed by a schoolgirl in Louisville, Kentucky, just a few years before the Civil War. Resting on a rectangular base, the scallop-rimmed compote in this drawing holds pears, peaches, what appears to be a small melon, and a......

A BALTIMORE BAYONET TO JOHN BULL’S BACKSIDE

A marvelous War of 1812 satire by Philadelphia printmaker and caricaturist William Charles, showing the defenders of Baltimore driving off a superior number of British soldiers near Fort McHenry. Three battling Baltimoreans appear on the left, one of whom has punctured the now bleeding behind of John Bull with a......

PHOTO OF CORNELIA A. FASSETT’S PAINTING
OF THE 1877 ELECTORAL COMMISSION,
WITH A BROADSIDE KEY

A scarce photograph of Cornelia Adele Fassett’s noted painting of the meeting of the Electoral Commission of 1877, accompanied by a broadside key. The 1877 Electoral Commission was a temporary body created by Congress to resolve the disputed 1876 presidential election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J......

FINE PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF GENERAL SHERIDAN

An excellent portrait miniature of General Phillip Sheridan in uniform by an artist renowned for his portraits of Civil War Generals as well as other luminaries of the second half of the nineteenth century.  Painter and lithographer Peter Kramer (1823–1907) was born in Zweibrücken, Germany on July 24th, 1823 and.....

INSCRIBED BY A SURVIVOR OF THE GREELY EXPEDITION

A rare photograph of an official painting by artist Albert Operti depicting the rescue of the surviving members of the Greely Arctic Expedition, inscribed by expedition survivor Sergt. Francis Long.  This image shows the rescue of members of Adolphus W. Greely’s ill-fated and grueling Lady Franklin Bay expedition. In 1881.....

GEHENNA PRESS “TIRESIAS,” ONE OF FIFTY

One of fifty copies printed. This one, which is unnumbered, is identified by Baskin as the “printer’s copy.” From the colophon: “Fifty copies of Tiresias have been printed at the Gehenna Press, Northampton, Massachusetts, in Centaur type on Fabriano paper. The press man was Harold McGrath. The world Tiresias on.....