Portrait of General Robert E. Lee, February 18, 1865 – Historic Photo Reproduction
![Portrait of General Robert E. Lee, February 18, 1865, [1865 Feb. 18] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ee/eec9c9f4222a-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: Portrait of General Robert E. Lee, February 18, 1865, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Portrait of General Robert E. Lee, February 18, 1865
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Dated February 18, 1865, this albumen print shows Robert E. Lee shortly after Jefferson Davis named him general-in-chief of Confederate armies, as the Confederacy's position around Richmond and Petersburg grew desperate. Albumen prints like this were the standard photographic reproduction of the 1860s, made by coating paper with egg white and silver salts and printing from glass negatives. Lee was famously reluctant to sit for photographers, which makes his surviving portraits from this period especially valued. The date comes from an unverified shelflist card, and the print was a 1949 gift from Joseph Verner Reed.
| Created / published | [1865 Feb. 18] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen silver. |
| Genre | Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from shelflist card. Gift; Joseph Verner Reed 1949. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,562 × 5,120 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 04402u portrait of general robert e lee |
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