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Wed, Sep 18, 2019 12:30AM EDT
Lot 615

Flowers of Ugliness No. 9. Virginia Stock.

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

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Treager, Gabriel Shire. Flowers of Ugliness No. 9. Virginia Stock. London: G.S. Treager, 1836. Hand-colored lithograph depicting six slaves shackled together at the wrist. Generous margins (sight 10 ? x 13 ??), framed to 13 ? x 16 ??. Several repaired closed tears with restored losses outside image; one tear affects lettering in ?Virginia.? Rare; we could locate only one copy outside the Library of Congress.