Sale 2503 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 28, 2019

277 c   (HAITI.) Delpech, François Séraphin, lithographer; after Maurin. Toussaint L’Ouverture. Lithograph, 16 x 12 inches; 1 / 2 -inch repair along left edge, otherwise minimal wear. [Paris?], circa 1830s [1,500/2,500] The larger of two lithographs Delpech did of this portrait. The other appeared with Toussaint’s facsimile signature in Delpech’s “Iconographie des Contemporains” in 1833. These renderings are probably the best-known portraits of the great revolutionary.