NEBEL, Carl (1805-1855). Battle of Palo Alto. From The War Between the United States and Mexico Illustrated, [Paris: LeMercier, 1851].
Sale 1046 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography Featuring the Civil War and American Militaria Collection of Bruce B. Hermann
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Jun 21, 2022
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Jun 22, 2022
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Estimate
$800 -
$1,200
Item was unsold
Lot Description
NEBEL, Carl (1805-1855). Battle of Palo Alto. From The War Between the United States and Mexico Illustrated, [Paris: LeMercier, 1851].
Lithograph with hand-coloring heightened in gum arabic, 355 x 465 mm sheet. Slight toning, browning verso from old framing, mostly marginal inkstain lower margin. Provenance: Acquired Dorothy Sloan (26 September 2007, lot 178).
FIRST EDITION of the first illustration from George Wilkins Kendall and Carlos Nebel's work, "the very best American battle scenes in existence" (Bennett American Nineteenth-Century Color Plate Books, p.65). "Of all the Mexican War lithographs, perhaps the dozen by Kendall and Nebel are the most popular, as well as the most accurate" (Tyler, The Mexican War, A Lithographic Record, p.18). The lithograph shows the battle from the perspective of a viewer behind the U. S. lines looking south toward the Mexican position, and the details of the uniforms are considered generally correct.
Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler
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