Item #38969 LITHOGRAPH PORTRAIT TITLED "PREST ABRAHAM LINCOLN - 1861" Abraham Lincoln.
LITHOGRAPH PORTRAIT TITLED "PREST ABRAHAM LINCOLN - 1861"

LITHOGRAPH PORTRAIT TITLED "PREST ABRAHAM LINCOLN - 1861"

New York: American Bank Note Co., [1861]. Broadside, 3 x 3-3/4" india paper mounted on card backing 5-3/4" x 8-1/4". The oval portrait area is 1-1/2" x 1-7/8". The number "141" appears beneath the title. Handcolored line and stipple lithograph depicting a bust portrait of a bearded Abraham Lincoln in his usual suit and diamond knotted bowtie, torso and head facing to the right, looking almost front. Left edge of backing has remnant of cloth tape from having been mounted and light scattered foxing. Near Fine.

This engraving, by Frederick Girsch for the American Bank Note Company, was used on the $10 Demand Note of 1861 and the $10 Legal Tender Notes of 1862-1863. ["Lincoln Securities," Museum of American Finance website.]
Stewart 4 [Catalogue of the portraits of Lincoln in the Lincoln Collection of Judd Stewart, New Jersey: 1912]. Item #38969

Price: $500.00