Washington and Lincoln, the Father and Saviour of Our Country – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Washington and Lincoln, the Father and Saviour of Our Country, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Washington and Lincoln, the Father and Saviour of Our Country
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Few prints of their era place two figures side by side as directly as this one, pairing George Washington with Abraham Lincoln under a title that calls them the father and saviour of the country. The pairing reflects a common 19th-century habit of framing national leaders as a line of heroes: Washington led the Continental Army to independence, and Lincoln held the Union together during the Civil War. Prints like this circulated widely and used familiar patriotic imagery to argue for continuity in American history, presenting the two men as bookends of the nation's founding and its survival.
| Original scan | 1,189 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3b51183_ |
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