[An albumen print portrait of James A. Garfield].
London.
C. W. Bacon, [s.d., 1881?]
Dimensions: 100 x 160 mm.
Albumen print, with facsimile autograph, mounted on stiff gilt-edged card, letterpress biographical sketch to verso. Light spotting.
A commemorative cabinet card portrait of James A. Garfield (1831-1881), twentieth President of the United States, evidently issued in the wake of his assassination.
'He was assassinated July 2nd, 1881, and Died September 19th, 1881, amid universal heartfelt Sorrow on both sides of the Atlantic, for one who, though uncrowned, took rank with Kings. The melancholy event, and the international sympathy which it excited, will tend more firmly to dement together the two great Anglo-Saxon Nations'.
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref: 34042
'He was assassinated July 2nd, 1881, and Died September 19th, 1881, amid universal heartfelt Sorrow on both sides of the Atlantic, for one who, though uncrowned, took rank with Kings. The melancholy event, and the international sympathy which it excited, will tend more firmly to dement together the two great Anglo-Saxon Nations'.
