[Robert Edward Lee, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right] / Handy photo. – Historic Photo Reproduction
![[Robert Edward Lee, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right] / Handy photo., [1869 May] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/bd/bd2d8c2d8b93-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 [Robert Edward Lee, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right] / Handy photo.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Robert Edward Lee, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right] / Handy photo.
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A seated, three-quarter-length portrait of Robert E. Lee, taken in May 1869, shows him in the last years of his life, after he had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox in 1865. By 1869 he was serving as president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia, and he had become one of the most recognized figures of the postwar South. The "Handy" credit identifies the studio that produced the print, one of many portraits of Lee made during this period, when his image was widely reproduced and sold to a public eager to see the former general.
| 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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