[Robert Edward Lee, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right] / Handy photo. – Historic Photograph Print
![[Robert Edward Lee, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right] / Handy photo., [1869 May] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b9/b93f51d8dd1c-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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A window into the past: [Robert Edward Lee, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right] / Handy photo., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Robert Edward Lee, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right] / Handy photo.
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Lee sits three-quarter length and faces right in this May 1869 portrait, a few years after he had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox in April 1865. By then he was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia, a post he had accepted in 1865 and held until his death in 1870. The pose is calm and formal, which fits his postwar image as a dignified educator rather than a field commander. Lee disliked sitting for photographers, so portraits from these years were among the most widely circulated images of him in the South and North alike.
| Created / published | [1869 May] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1860-1870.Photographic prints 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),--1807-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,810 × 4,740 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221455 |
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