Columbia's Noblest Sons – Antique Print
(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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Step back in time with Columbia's Noblest Sons, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Columbia's Noblest Sons
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Columbia's Noblest Sons sets Abraham Lincoln beside George Washington, with Columbia, the personification of the nation in a Phrygian cap, crowning both men with laurel wreaths. The lithograph was issued by Kimmel & Forster of New York around 1865, when grief over Lincoln's assassination in April of that year produced a wave of memorial prints. Its small vignettes of Revolutionary episodes, including the Boston Tea Party, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and the British surrender at Yorktown, were meant to link Lincoln's preservation of the Union to the founding generation's achievement.
| Created / published | c. 1865 |
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| Medium | print on wove paper, lithograph, image 41 x 51.8 cm. |
| Notes | Published & lithographed by Kimmel & Forster, New York. SUMMARY: One of the grander prints produced to exploit the great outpouring of national devotion to the martyred President following his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln is compared to George Washington. Columbia, in classical garb and wearing a Phrygian cap, crowns the founder and the preserver of the Union with twin laurel wreaths. On the left are small scenes from the Revolution--the Boston Tea Party, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and the British surrender at Yorktown. On the right, near Lincoln, are images of the Civil War--the bombardment of Fort Sumter, an encounter between an ironclad and two wooden ships (entitled "Progress"), and Lincoln's triumphant arrival in Richmond. Documents associated with the Washington and Lincoln, the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation, appear below |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 7,252 × 5,860 px · prints to 24 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | L-CW-4 |
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