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[Robert Edward Lee, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] – Vintage Wall Art

[Robert Edward Lee, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], [between 1860 and 1900] — antique lithograph
[Robert Edward Lee, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], [between 1860 and 1900]. Antique lithograph from the Gettysburg 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.)

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This rare antique lithograph captures [Robert Edward Lee, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Robert Edward Lee, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

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Turned toward the left and shown from the shoulders up, this chromolithograph presents Robert E. Lee with the calm, composed bearing his admirers later praised. Printed sometime between 1860 and 1900, the color portrait belongs to a wide run of inexpensive lithographs that circulated in the decades after the Civil War, when Lee had become a symbol to many white Southerners. He led the Army of Northern Virginia and surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox in April 1865, then spent his last years as president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia. Portraits like this one helped shape how Americans remembered him.

Created / published[between 1860 and 1900]
Medium1 print : chromolithograph.
GenrePortrait prints 1860-1900.Chromolithographs Color 1860-1900.
SubjectsLee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),--1807-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,380 × 4,168 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-226464

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