Letter From Abraham Lincoln To Mrs. Bixby With Bust-Length Portrait Of Lincoln – Vintage Photo Print
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A window into the past: Letter From Abraham Lincoln To Mrs. Bixby With Bust-Length Portrait Of Lincoln, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Letter From Abraham Lincoln To Mrs. Bixby With Bust-Length Portrait Of Lincoln
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This print pairs Lincoln's likeness with a letter addressed to Mrs. Bixby, a Massachusetts mother said to have lost several sons in the Civil War. The portrait is a steel engraving by John Chester Buttre, made from a photograph by Mathew Brady, and the c. 1891 date points to a later printing of an image that circulated widely in the decades after Lincoln's death. The letter, dated November 1864, became one of the most reprinted documents of the war, but historians have long doubted that Lincoln wrote it, and many credit it to a secretary or another writer.
| Created / published | c. 1891 |
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| Medium | print, steel engraving and lithograph, 46.8 x 34.2 cm. |
| Notes | Engraved by J. C. Buttre. Photo by M.B. Brady. Published by M. F. Tobin, Buttre. Artist, John Chester (b. 1821- d. 1893). . SUMMARY: Print showing a portrait of Lincoln with a letter that he is thought to have written to Mrs. Bixby on the loss of her sons in the Civil War |
| Original scan | 3,871 × 5,331 px · prints to 13 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | L-P-13 |
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