[Ehrgott, Forbriger & Company]:

$15,000 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

[COLLECTION OF THIRTY-SEVEN BLACK-AND-WHITE LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS OF UNION GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY LEADERS DURING THE CIVIL WAR]. The patriotism inspired by the Civil War, particularly in the urban centers of the north, engendered a dramatic growth in the production of various media, such as sheet music, prints, photographs, and other ephemera, marketed to individuals by enterprising printers, stationers, photographers, print sellers, and the like. Among these was the sale of portraits of famous Union politicians and soldiers. Most of these popular prints were sold by publishers, picture dealers, or itinerant street sellers as individual items, although at least one enterprising seller during the Civil War offered prints bound in albums. Although seldom encountered, the best known of these albums comprise Union portraits by the Cincinnati lithographic firm Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co., like this one. Founded in 1856, the firm issued seventy-nine different prints of sixty-nine Union politicians and military officers between 1861 and 1864. The present collection represents nearly half of Ehrgott, Forbriger & Company's entire series of Union portraiture and includes two Lincoln cabinet members (Chase and Stanton), three governors (David Todd of Ohio, O.P. Morton of Indiana, and Andrew Johnson of Tennessee), twenty-five generals, six naval officers, and Col. Elmer Ellsworth (the first high-ranking Union officer to die in the war).Although unable to find advertisements for the sale o

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