Abraham Lincoln's last reception / Hohenstein. – Vintage Print
(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 antique lithograph of Abraham Lincoln's last reception / Hohenstein.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Abraham Lincoln's last reception / Hohenstein.
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Mary Todd Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman appear alongside Abraham Lincoln in this hand-colored lithograph, which presents itself as his last public reception in Washington. The company gathered in the picture reflects the Union's political and military leadership as the Civil War was ending. Published in Philadelphia by John Smith in 1865, the year Lincoln was assassinated that April, the print carries the weight of hindsight, and the hand coloring was a common finishing touch on lithographs of the period. It is worth noticing how the scene turns an ordinary social occasion into a record of a presidency cut short.
| Created / published | Philadelphia : John Smith, 1865. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1860-1780. |
| Subjects | Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Social life. Lincoln, Mary Todd,--1818-1882--Social life. Johnson, Andrew,--1808-1875--Social life. Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson),--1822-1885--Social life. Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh),--1820-1891--Social life. Receptions--Washington (D.C.)--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,148 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-112094 |
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