Death Of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865 – Vintage Wall Art
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Description
This rare antique lithograph captures Death Of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865 in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Death Of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865
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The subject here is the night of April 14-15, 1865, when Abraham Lincoln died in the Petersen House across from Ford's theater in Washington, shot by John Wilkes Booth days after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox. This hand-colored lithograph, published by E.B. & E.C. Kellogg of New York with a Hartford imprint from F.P. Whiting, belongs to the wave of popular prints that rushed to market soon after the assassination. Such pictures gave grieving families a way to display the event in their parlors, and they often blended documentary detail with heavy symbolism. Viewers today can compare the composition with the photographs and sketches that circulated at the time to see how artists shaped public memory of the moment.
| Created / published | c. 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, lithograph, hand-colored |
| Notes | E.B. & E.C. Kellogg, New York. F.P. Whiting, Hartford, Conn |
| Original scan | 5,081 × 3,928 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | L-D-8 |
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