Portrait of Abraham Lincoln
date: label: Date made
content: 1869
name: label: engraver
content: Gugler, Henry
label: original artist
content: Littlefield, J. H.
label: artist attribution
content: Brady, Mathew B.
label: publisher
content: William Pate & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: William Pate & Co. of New York published this portrait of Lincoln in 1869. The engraver, Henry Gugler, is best known for his bank-note work. Although the copyright notice below the print indicates the source as an original painting by J. H. Littlefield, who was once a clerk in Lincoln's law office, the image was based on a photograph made in the Mathew Brady studio in 1864. Perhaps Littlefield made a painting after the photograph that Gugler then engraved. The Brady studio photograph of Lincoln also served as the model for the engraving that appeared on the five-dollar bill and for other portrait prints.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Politics
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Abraham Lincoln
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content: Art
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Holzer, Harold; Boritt, Gabor S., and Neely, Mark E., Jr.. The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: J. W. Osborne
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.03352
label: catalog number
content: 03352
label: accession number
content: 23155
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Type
content: Engraving
label: Other Terms
content: print; Engraving
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 75.5 cm x 59 cm; 29 3/4 in x 23 1/4 in