PETER KRAMER'S LITHOGRAPH PORTRAIT OF ANDREW JOHNSON
by [Johnson, Andrew]
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About This Item
[np, 1865. Folio,19" x 24," half-length lithograph portrait with tintstone on paper, as described at the Smithsonian Institute's National Portrait Gallery. Some toning and light spotting at the margins, Very Good.
The artist is probably "Peter Kramer, a painter and lithographer from Bavaria, who emigrated to the United States in 1848. He worked for P.S. Duval, a Philadelphia lithographic publisher, until 1857, and returned to Germany in 1858. He was later exiled for caricaturing the King of Bavaria and returned to America until his death in 1907" [from the Philadelphia Print Shop's biography of Kramer].
National Portrait Gallery, NPG.84.204. Jay Last Collection at the Huntington Library.
The artist is probably "Peter Kramer, a painter and lithographer from Bavaria, who emigrated to the United States in 1848. He worked for P.S. Duval, a Philadelphia lithographic publisher, until 1857, and returned to Germany in 1858. He was later exiled for caricaturing the King of Bavaria and returned to America until his death in 1907" [from the Philadelphia Print Shop's biography of Kramer].
National Portrait Gallery, NPG.84.204. Jay Last Collection at the Huntington Library.
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- Bookseller
- David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38840
- Title
- PETER KRAMER'S LITHOGRAPH PORTRAIT OF ANDREW JOHNSON
- Author
- [Johnson, Andrew]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- [np
- Date Published
- 1865
- Bookseller catalogs
- BROADSIDE; AMERICANA;
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About the Seller
David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC
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Woodbridge, Connecticut
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- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...