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Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right – Vintage Photo Print

Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, c. 1860 — historic print
Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, c. 1860. Historic print from the Lincoln collection.

(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.)

Description

This rare historic print captures Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right

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Facing right in a head-and-shoulders pose, this portrait shows Abraham Lincoln as he appeared in the years just before he rose to national prominence. Circa 1860 was the year he won the Republican nomination for president and then the election, and portraits from this period were widely copied and engraved, so images like this one reached readers far beyond the sitter's home state of Illinois. The profile orientation was a common choice in nineteenth-century portraiture and gives the face a clean, formal outline. Worth noticing is how such prints served as the public's main way of seeing a politician whom most Americans had never met in person.

Created / publishedc. 1860
Mediumprint
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,766 × 2,613 px · prints to 6 × 9 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceL-P-25

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