Immediate Emancipation

by Alexander Rippingille, after, engraver S. H. Gimber

$5,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

New York: Published by W. E. Whiting, 61 John St., ca. 1861 . Mezzotint and engraving, 12.25” x 9”, sheet size 16.625” x 11.625”. CONDITION: Very good, slight rubbing to margins of sheet, a few spots of foxing to verso. An apparently otherwise unknown edition of this celebratory print, originally published in England and America to mark the abolition of slavery in the British colonies, and

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