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HON. HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON. Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States
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About This Item
New York: Currier & Ives, 1860.
Folio. 435 x 320 mm., [17 x 12 ½ inches]; image size 320 x 230 mm., [12 ½ x 10 inches]. Color lithographic portrait, printed in black ink and hand colored in two colors and highlights of black. Some light discoloration to margins, otherwise a very good copy with strong color.
Fine designed and executed lithographic political portrait of Johnson, highlighted with delicate rendering of the hair, eyes and beard. It was printed by Currier & Ives, the partnership which Nathaniel Currier formed with James Merritt Ives in 1857. Currier was in charge of the lithographic presses and all the production values and Ives was the bookkeeper and accountant who modernize the financial side to the business and had a keen sense of the market and the public taste for prints.
Herschel Vespasian Johnson was the Democratic candidate for Vice-President from George who was meant to balance the ticket with Stephen Douglas his running mate. Johnson was member of Congress, both in the House and the Senate, Governor of George and a slaveholder who, according to census data owned over 100 slaves who worked his land holdings in various part of Johnson County George. He was brought to the Democratic ticket to insure that Southern votes would pledge allegiance to the party and defeat Lincoln and the Republicans.
Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, III, p., 443. Jane Cooper Bland, Currier & Ives, A Manual for Collectors, No. 1850. (843)
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- Title
- HON. HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON. Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States
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- Used
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- Publisher
- Currier & Ives
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1860
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De Simone Company is presently offering rare books, manuscripts, illustrated books, broadsides, and ephemera documenting American history during the 19th century. We encourage you to visit our website where you will find numerous catalogues listing our offering. Visit www.desimonecompanybooksellers.com.De Simone Company also specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The Company has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy and is always interested in purchasing book on the subject.In January of 2017, Daniel De Simone retired from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C as the Eric Weinmann Librarian, where he directed the operations of the Central Library. De Simone came to the Folger from the Library of Congress after serving as the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division for 14 years.Before his appointment as Rosenwald Curator in 2000, he operated his own New York based bookselling business for 22 years. Since retirement he has begun bookselling once again and is again a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He is also a member of the Grolier Club, NY, the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, Paris, and the Print Council of America.
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