[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left; a detail from portrait showing Lincoln seated in a chair] – Vintage Photo Print
![[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left; a detail from portrait showing Lincoln seated in a chair], [1865 Feb. 5] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e9/e9484c2a4aa5-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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This rare historic photograph captures [Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left; a detail from portrait showing Lincoln seated in a chair] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left; a detail from portrait showing Lincoln seated in a chair]
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Cropped from a larger seated portrait, this small albumen print isolates Lincoln's head and shoulders, turned slightly to the left. It records a sitting at Alexander Gardner's Washington studio on Sunday, February 5, 1865, a date that later research has settled on after the session was long assumed to have taken place on April 10. That makes it the last photographic session from life for a president who was assassinated in April 1865. Gardner's portraits of Lincoln were widely copied during the war years, and this image remains a close record of his appearance in his final months.
| Created / published | [1865 Feb. 5] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen silver ; 3.5 x 2 in. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Copy of photo by Alexander Gardner taken at Gardner's Gallery in Washington, DC, on Sunday, February 5, 1865. This last photo session from life was long thought to have happened on April 10, 1865, but more recent research has indicated the earlier date in February. Ostendorf, no. 116-B Meserve, no. 98 Gift, Gen. R.L. Hoxie, June 30, 1919 (DLC/PP - 1919:45956) Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 228. |
| Subjects | Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,265 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-177532 |
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