79 / 239
78
163
GEER, W.
Tribute of respect to Major General Lafayette, by... an old Revolutionary soldier
New York, 16 août 1824
1 p. in-4, portrait de Lafayette gravé sur bois et imprimé en haut de l’affiche, encadrement d’un
bandeau gravé sur bois
RARE ET SUPERBE AFFICHE IMPRIMÉE À NEW YORK LORS DE L’ACCUEIL DE
LAFAYETTE EN AOÛT 1824. EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE : “THE GALLIC HERO”
“Let us with reverence adore him as the father of our country”
1 000 / 1 500
€
164
[
LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]
Lettre autographe signée de Josiah Quincy, maire de Boston
Boston, 17 août 1824
2 pp. in-4
LE MAIRE DE BOSTON ACCUEILLE LAFAYETTE : “THE GENERAL JOY, WHICH
PERVADES THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES, AT YOUR ARRIVAL”
“The City Council of Boston impressed with the general joy, which pervades the citizens of the
United States, at your arrival in this country, have requested me to take measures to be informed
at what period it will suit Your convenience, to gratify those wishes, at once so ardent and so
general, to welcome you, personally, to this city”
This letter was delivered in person by Boston’s City Marshal, Benjamin Pollard, charged
therein by Quincy with receiving “any commands or communications, you may be
pleased to give”. A lawyer and graduate of Harvard, Pollard had been appointed
the city’s first Marshal in 1823, his successors heading the police department after
its formation in 1838. Quincy’s eldest daughter, the diarist and amateur artist Eliza
Susan Quincy, has left a description of Lafayette’s triumphal entry into the city on 24
August :
“Boston presented a most animated scene, crowds of people in their best dresses were already
moving through the streets, the military manoeuvring on the common and an immense cavalcade
of citizens on horseback, among whom were two hundred truckmen dressed in their white
frocks, who made a fine appearance. A barouche drawn by four white horses had previously
been sent out to the Governor’s seat for the General. At nine o’clock the procession moved and
preceded by the City Authorities, who occupied a long train of carriages, the whole cavalcade
advanced through Washington Street, and across the neck, to the lines of the city... The Mayor
then entered the barouche of the General, and the procession moved.” (cf. Klamkin,
Return of
Lafayette
, pp. 33-34)
800 / 1 200
€