James Buchanan: Democratic candidate for fifteenth President of the United States – Antique Wall Art
(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 James Buchanan: Democratic candidate for fifteenth President of the United States. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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James Buchanan: Democratic candidate for fifteenth President of the United States
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Among the campaign images of 1856, this lithograph presents James Buchanan as the Democratic nominee for the presidency, a role he would win that November. The print was published in New York by N. Currier and based on a photograph by Mathew B. Brady, whose studio produced many of the era's best-known portraits. Buchanan went on to defeat John C. Frémont and Millard Fillmore, and his term, which ended just before the Civil War, is remembered mainly for the sectional crisis that followed.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1856. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1850-1860. |
| Notes | After a photograph by Mathew B. Brady. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3396 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,063 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175513 |
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