Litho richard compton (1 Ergebnisse)

Single Sheet. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Scarce large oval lithographic portrait of Fillmore on heavy card, with publisher's information and date at foot of portrait in very small type. Compton was a publisher in Buffalo for several years, later becoming a piano manufacturer. Signed by Fillmore beneath his portrait (I would think this is signed in the plate, although the ink is quite solid.) [ Note- this is an early lithograph published in the last year of his Presidency, not the much later steel engraving.] "Entered according to Act of Congress (-) 1853 by R. J. Compton in the Clerk's OFfice of First Court of (-) Northern District of New York". An aged copy, wear, edge creases and two creases across the length of the portrait (these are not folds, however).…