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Abraham Lincoln

Artist Mathew B. Brady (American, 1823 - 1896)
Date1863
MediumAlbumen carte-de-visite
DimensionsImage and sheet: 3 3/8 × 2 1/16 inches (8.57 × 5.24 cm)
Mount: 4 × 2 7/16 inches (10.16 × 6.19 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.271
SignedOn mount verso, center, in black type: "Published by / E. ANTHONY, / 501 Broadway, N.Y. / 501 AMERICAN & FOREIGN / STEREOSCOPIC EMPORIUM / Manufacturer of Photographic Albums. / FROM / Photographic Negative / in / BRADY'S / National Portrait Gallery. / Snyder, Black & Sturn. N.Y."
InscribedOn mount verso, top, in black pen: "Abraham Lincoln"
MarkingsOn mount verso, center, black stamp: "5655"
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DescriptionImage of Abraham Lincoln wearing a suit and tie standing beside a chair with his hand resting on a column. A draped curtain is in the upper left corner.Exhibition History
Developing Greatness: The Origins of American Photography, 1839-1885. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 9 –  December 30, 2007
Published References
Keith F. Davis, The Origins of American Photography: from Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885. With contributions by Jane L. Aspinwall. Kansas City, MO: Hall Family Foundation: in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007. Distributed by Yale University Press. Published in conjunction with Developing Greatness: the Origins of American Photography, 1839-1885, shown at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 175 (repro), 332.
James Mellon, ed., The Face of Lincoln (1979; New York: Bonanza Books, 1982): 122-23; Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr. et al., Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography (New York: Knopf, 1992): 209 (here significantly cropped); and Stefan Lorant, Lincoln: A Picture Story of His Life, Revised and Enlarged Edition (New York: Bonanza Books, 1969): 150.
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