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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
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 from the Virginia collection.

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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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Robert E. Lee died at Lexington, Virginia, on October 12, 1870, and this lithograph, published that year by the New York firm Currier & Ives, was one of the memorial prints issued to mark his death. The title gives his exact age, 62 years, 8 months and 6 days, a detail typical of nineteenth-century mourning pictures. After the Civil War, Lee became president of Washington College in Lexington, and the town is where he spent his last years. Currier & Ives sold many inexpensive lithographs like this one, which spread his image widely among readers across the country.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, 1870.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1870.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1612.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,242 × 2,400 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174354

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