$750
Estimate: $500 - $800
Auction: November 12, 2020 10:00:00 AM EDT
Original etching by Joseph Conover Claghorn. Signed by President Herbert Hoover and First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, and dated 12-25-'31. Signed and titled "From the South Portico of the White House", by Claghorn below image. Print: 9 1/2 x 5 in. (241 x 127 mm) (sight); frame: 16 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. (425 x 323 mm). Unexamined out of frame.
Scarce handsome etching, gifted to select White House staff and aides on Christmas 1931.