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Portrait of Abraham Lincoln

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Year:: 1930
Contributor:: Hesler, Alexander, 1823-1895 (photographer)
Genre:: lithographs
Subject:: Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865 > Portraits
Local ID:: M6f
Extent:: 1 lithograph; 30.6 x 25.1 cm.

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Abstract:: Based on Alexander Hesler's 1857 photograph of Lincoln in profile with tousled hair and face clean shaven. Lincoln's posture is more upright here than in the original photograph and the lighting has been made softer.

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"Portrait of Abraham Lincoln" (1930). Lincoln Graphics. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:68667/

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Lincoln Graphics

Prints in the Lincoln collection are classified by Meserve numbers, and include most of the known photographic images of Lincoln, along with engravings and popular prints by, among other firms, Currier & Ives and Kurz & Allen. There are also …
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