Death of General Robert E. Lee: At Lexington, Va., October 12th, 1870, aged, 62 years, 8 months and 6 days – Antique Wall Art
![Death of General Robert E. Lee: At Lexington, Va., October 12th, 1870, aged, 62 years, 8 months and 6 days, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1870. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2b/2bdc8a7d14c0-L.webp)
(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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Death of General Robert E. Lee: At Lexington, Va., October 12th, 1870, aged, 62 years, 8 months and 6 days comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Death of General Robert E. Lee: At Lexington, Va., October 12th, 1870, aged, 62 years, 8 months and 6 days
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Lee died at his home in Lexington, Virginia, on October 12, 1870, five years after the surrender at Appomattox, and this Currier & Ives lithograph was issued the same year to mark his passing. Lee had spent his last years as president of Washington College, which he helped steer toward recovery after the war, and the print's title records his age at death, 62 years, 8 months and 6 days. Currier & Ives sold such memorial prints to a wide public, so the image reflects how northern and southern audiences alike turned Lee into a figure of national mourning and reconciliation.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1870. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1612. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,287 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174354 |
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