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1855 Steel Engraving. US Senate By R Whitechurch After Peter Frederick Rothermel For Sale
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1855 Steel Engraving. US Senate By R Whitechurch After Peter Frederick Rothermel:
$1200.00
For sale is an historically important 1855 steel engraving of an original 1850 painting by Peter Frederick Rothermel (1817 - 1895)
Widely considered one of the most important steel engravings of the 19th century.
Published by Fishel Adler Schwartz Publisher.
Entered into congress: Philadelphia: John M. Butler and Alfred Long, 1855
Caption continues: This engraving from the original picture is respectfully dedicated to the People of the United States by the publishers. - Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by John M. Butler and Alfred Long, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
A dramatic print of Rothermel's painting featuring Henry Clay addressing the Senate. The event depicted here is Clay's argument for the "Compromise of 1850" or the "California compromise," to admit California into the Union as a free state in an attempt to prevent what became the American Civil War. Details of the Old Senate Chamber and the august members of the Senate, including Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun and Thomas Hart Benton, are sharp, down to the patterned carpet and draperies behind the president's chair, where Vice President Millard Fillmore is seated. The faces are accurate because Rothermel used daguerreotypes of the major figures in his painting. This print's crowded gallery, and the seriousness of expression in its subjects pay fitting tribute to Clay, the orator and statesman, as he made an historically important argument just two years before his death. One of the best American political prints of the nineteenth century.
Condition: Engraved image being very sharp and crisp overall. With areas of light creasing. The margins with some water staining, creasing, edge tears, and paper fraying to top left corner, as depicted in our photographs.
Can matt and frame as is or send to a paper restorer to further preserve this rare and historically important engraving.
Unframed
Measurements: Plate 29 1/2" x 37 1/2" approximately
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