[Abraham Lincoln, seated and holding a book, with his son Tad (Thomas) leaning on a table] – Vintage Print
![[Abraham Lincoln, seated and holding a book, with his son Tad (Thomas) leaning on a table], [1865 Feb. 5] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a7/a78223b7d61c-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Abraham Lincoln, seated and holding a book, with his son Tad (Thomas) leaning on a table]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Abraham Lincoln, seated and holding a book, with his son Tad (Thomas) leaning on a table]
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Lincoln sits with a book in hand while his younger son Tad leans against the table beside him, a pairing that makes this sitting stand apart from the many formal portraits of the president. The session took place at Alexander Gardner's Washington studio, and the record dates it to Sunday, February 5, 1865, though it was long assumed to be a later April sitting. Researchers now regard it as the last time Lincoln was photographed from life, only weeks before his assassination in April 1865. The left side of the image has been cropped, so the full composition once included more of the setting.
| Created / published | [1865 Feb. 5] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen silver |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1860-1870.Albumenr prints 1900. |
| Notes | Photo by Alexander Gardner taken at Gardner's Gallery in Washington, DC, on Sunday, February 5, 1865. This last photo session from life was long thought to have happened on April 10, 1865, but more recent research has indicated the earlier date in February. Left side of photo has been cropped. Ostendorf, no. 114 Meserve, no. 95 Gift, General R.L. Hoxie, Washington, DC June 30, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:45956) Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 219-20. Published in: The Face of Lincoln / compiled and edited by James Mellon. New York : Viking Press, 1979, p. 176-177. Published in: The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Hill Meserve and Carl Sandburg. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944, pl. 95. |
| Subjects | Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865. Lincoln, Thomas,--1853-1871. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,972 × 4,949 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109761 |
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