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[Abraham Lincoln, half-length portrait, seated, with pencil and spectacles retouched] – Antique Photo Print

[Abraham Lincoln, half-length portrait, seated, with pencil and spectacles retouched], [Washington, D.C. : Gardner's Gallery, 1865 Feb. 5, printed later] — historic photograph
[Abraham Lincoln, half-length portrait, seated, with pencil and spectacles retouched], [Washington, D.C. : Gardner's Gallery, 1865 Feb. 5, printed later]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Lincoln sits at half length with a pencil in hand and his spectacles, two details that were touched up by hand to stand out more clearly. The record attributes the image to Gardner's Gallery in Washington, D.C., with a date of February 5, 1865, though that caption date is unverified and the print may have been made later. If the date holds, the sitting falls in the weeks before Lincoln's second inauguration in March 1865, a period when his likeness was widely reproduced.

Created / published[Washington, D.C. : Gardner's Gallery, 1865 Feb. 5, printed later]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1860-1870.Photographic prints 1860-1870.
NotesThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Ostendorf, no. 116-D. Meserve, no. 97-A (Version of #97, touched up to highlight pencil and glasses) Similar to portrait published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 226.
SubjectsLincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,018 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-107350

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