Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President of the United States – Vintage Print
![Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President of the United States, [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1861 and 1865] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9d/9d9b17f4ed02-L.webp)
(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 Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President of the United States in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President of the United States
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Among the Civil War portraits on this board, this hand-colored lithograph stands out for its date range: it was published by Currier & Ives in New York while Lincoln was still in office, sometime between 1861 and 1865. The firm produced inexpensive prints for a broad public, and demand for images of the president rose sharply during the war, when families and newspapers wanted faces of the men leading the country. Hand coloring, typically applied by workers following color guides, was a common finishing step that made these prints more appealing to buyers. The print is catalogued in Gale Research's Currier & Ives catalog raisonné, which helps researchers trace its place among the firm's output.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1861 and 1865] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0017 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,224 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174041 |
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