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Lot 556: Max Rosenthal Engraving, A. Yates

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Lot  556: Max Rosenthal Engraving, A. Yates
<b>Prints</b><hr><b>Mr. Albany</b>

<b>ABRAHAM YATES, JR. Revolutionary patriot. </b>
Engraving by Max Rosenthal (1833-1918). Uncolored. 4' x 6', with margins extending to 10' by 15'. Very Fine: a slight stain in the lower right corner, a chipped lower left corner, and an uneven margin at top are slight flaws which judicious matting or cropping will vanish. If, during the Revolutionary era, there was any office to be filled in or near Albany, New York, Abraham Yates was there to fill it: he was AlbanyÕs constable, firemaster, assistant alderman, alderman, recorder, deputy mayor and mayor. He also served as secretary to the Commissioners for Indian Affairs, sheriff of Albany County, chairman or the Albany Committee of Correspondence, delegate to the New York Provincial Congress and New York State Convention, Albany postmaster, Continental Loan Officer, New York State Senator, and delegate to the Continental Congress.