Ehrgott & Forbriger "Nathl. Lyon. Brig. Genl. U.S.A. Killed at the Battle of Springfield Mo. Aug. 10 1861”

Unattributed.  “Nathl. Lyon.  Brig. Genl. U.S.A.  Killed at the Battle of Springfield Mo. Aug. 10 1861.”  Cincinnati: Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co., ca. 1862.  Folio, ca. 12 ½ x 9 ½.  Lithograph by Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co.  Very good condition.  Rare.  Perhaps in late 1861, but certainly by mid-1862, the Cincinnati lithographic firm of Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. began to issue a series of portraits of Civil War figures: politicians as well as military and naval officers.  These prints, which the firm continued to issue at least as late as 1864, were of a type published by other lithographic firms of the day, for instance Currier & Ives, E.B. & E.C. Kellogg, Gibson & Co., and J.H. Bufford.  While of a familiar type of print, these Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. are quite unlike the prints by other publishers in one salient feature.  As discussed in Milt Kaplan’s “Heads of States,”  (Winterthur Portfolio 6.  Charlottesville, 1970  Pp. 135-150.) prints of different figure