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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A window into the past: Columbia's Noblest Sons, preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Columbia's Noblest Sons
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Columbia's Noblest Sons is a lithograph that sets Abraham Lincoln beside George Washington, with Columbia, the female personification of the United States, placing a laurel wreath on each man. The print belongs to the wave of memorial images that appeared after Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, when many publishers rushed out portraits and allegories to meet public grief. Its left side recalls Revolutionary moments such as the Boston Tea Party, the Declaration of Independence, and the British surrender at Yorktown, framing Lincoln's role as preserver of the Union in the language of the nation's founding.
| 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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