Works of art, comprising modern paintings, drawings, engravings, and bronzes, donated by the artists of Paris and Dusseldorf : the whole to be sold by auction, for the relief of the Chicago sufferers by the Messrs. Leavitt, at the Clinton Hall Sale Rooms, on the evenings of ... May 16th, 17th, 18th
An 1872 auction catalogue published in New York by George A. Leavitt & Co., offering paintings, drawings, engravings and bronzes donated by artists of Paris and Dusseldorf to raise relief money for victims of the 1871 Chicago fire. The single picture is a small sepia vignette of a classical multi-storey building with a columned portico and a horse-drawn carriage in the street. A designer could take from it the compact, engraved-vignette style of nineteenth-century commercial letterheads and auction bills.
