[Robert Edward Lee, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right] / Handy photo. – Vintage Wall Art
![[Robert Edward Lee, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right] / Handy photo., [1869 May] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f8/f878820df82e-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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[Robert Edward Lee, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right] / Handy photo. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. 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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Taken in May 1869, this seated, three-quarter-length portrait shows Robert E. Lee in the last full year and a half of his life, after he had left military command to serve as president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia. The sitter is turned to the right in a formal studio pose typical of the period. Lee had commanded the Army of Northern Virginia through the Gettysburg campaign, and by the late 1860s many Southerners and Northerners alike regarded him as a symbol of reconciliation, which helps explain why his portraits were so widely copied and sold.
| 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 | 1,141 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-108073 |
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