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[Robert Edward Lee, 1807-1870, head and shoulders portrait, facing right; as Col., U.S. Cavalry] – Historic Photograph Print

[Robert Edward Lee, 1807-1870, head and shoulders portrait, facing right; as Col., U.S. Cavalry] — antique engraving
[Robert Edward Lee, 1807-1870, head and shoulders portrait, facing right; as Col., U.S. Cavalry]. Antique engraving from the Gettysburg collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of [Robert Edward Lee, 1807-1870, head and shoulders portrait, facing right; as Col., U.S. Cavalry]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This engraving presents Robert E. Lee as a United States Army officer, as its caption gives his rank of colonel of cavalry. It shows him before he resigned his commission in 1861 and took command of Confederate forces. In the late 1850s he led the 2nd U.S. Cavalry, after serving as superintendent of West Point, and he was well regarded in the prewar army. Steel engravings like this one were a common way to reproduce portraits in nineteenth-century books and magazines. The card records no date, but the portrait shows Lee as he was known before the war turned him into one of the Confederacy's best-known generals.

Medium1 print : steel engraving.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,109 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-138191

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