Death of Abraham Lincoln.
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1865
label: date made
content: 1865 - 1866
name: label: depicted
content: Lincoln, Abraham
label: depicted
content: Colfax, Schuyler
label: depicted
content: Dennison, William
label: depicted
content: Ulke, Julius
label: distributor
content: Whiting, F. P.
label: depicted
content: Chase, Salmon Portland
label: depicted
content: Sumner, Charles
label: depicted
content: Lincoln, Robert Todd
label: depicted
content: Andrews, Rufus F.
label: depicted
content: Meade, George Gordon
label: depicted
content: Stanton, Edwin McMasters
label: depicted
content: Welles, Gideon
label: depicted
content: Farnsworth, John Franklin
label: depicted
content: Halleck, Henry W.
label: depicted
content: Crane, Charles Henry
label: depicted
content: Safford, Henry
label: depicted
content: Petersen, William A.
label: maker
content: E.B. and E.C. Kellogg
notes: label: Description
content: After Lincoln’s assassination, Northern families often displayed in their homes lithographic prints of the man they believed to be the savior of their nation. This print depicts one of the most popular scenes commemorating the late President – his deathbed in the Petersen House. Around 90 people came throughout to pay their respects to Lincoln before he passed on the morning of April 15, 1865. Although the room only measured about 10 by 17 feet, the lithographer has taken the artistic liberty of distorting the space to include 18 mourners gathered around Lincoln for his final moments, including Edwin Stanton and Charles Sumner. The stretching of the bedroom in prints to accommodate as many prominent figures as possible has been referred to as the “rubber room phenomenon.” A key at the bottom of the illustration identifies each person in the room, including a young boy listed as “Young Petersen,” who was not actually present at the event. Deathbed scenes of Lincoln became so desired in the years after his assassination that printers became more concerned with meeting popular demand than depicting the reality of the President’s final moments.
label: Description
content: This print was produced by the Hartford, Connecticut lithographic firm of E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. Edmund Burke Kellogg and Elijah Chapman Kellogg were younger brothers of the founder of the Kellogg lithography firm, Daniel Wright Kellogg. After Daniel Wright Kellogg moved west, his two brothers took over the family lithography firm in 1840 and changed the name to E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. They were responsible for the continued success of the family firm and involved in partnerships with Horace Thayer in 1846-47, John Chenevard Comstock in 1848 and William Henry Bulkeley in 1867.
label: Description
content: George Whiting worked as the agent and distributor of the Kellogg brothers’ prints in New York from 1848 to 1860. In 1860, the Kelloggs closed their New York office and Whiting took over the firm, selling prints until his death two years later.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
topic: label: Subject
content: U.S. National Government, executive branch
label: Subject
content: Furnishings
label: Subject
content: Presidents
label: Subject
content: Murder
label: referenced
content: Death
label: referenced
content: Civil War
label: related event
content: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.2561
label: catalog number
content: 60.2561
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 8 1/2 in x 13 in; 21.59 cm x 33.02 cm