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[Robert E. Lee, bust portrait] – Vintage Photo Print

[Robert E. Lee, bust portrait] — antique engraving
[Robert E. Lee, bust portrait]. Antique engraving 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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of [Robert E. Lee, bust portrait]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Robert E. Lee, bust portrait]

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Made around 1846, this bust-length engraving shows Robert E. Lee years before he became the Confederacy's best-known general, when he was still a young officer in the U.S. Army's Corps of Engineers. Engraved portraits like this one were a common way for a public figure's face to reach readers and print buyers. Lee's later command of the Army of Northern Virginia, including at Gettysburg in 1863, gives such early images their weight today, since they show the man before the war made his name.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes[ca. 1846]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan924 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117798

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