Description:
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. A separately issued print by “America’s printmakers, Currier and Ives. From 1834 to 1907 the firm of Nathaniel Currier and (after 1856) Currier & Ives provided for the American people a wide and varied gallery of prints for the new mass market of middle class society. The firm was the most successful American popular printmaker, issuing over 8,000 different prints. Their success was the result of their good business sense and their accurate instincts of what the American public wanted. Their images have become classics, capturing the life and times of nineteenth-century America. One of the more successful of their series were the portraits of the U.S. Presidents which they began issuing in the 1840s. Framed print portrait of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln sits in a blue upholstered chair with an eagle crest rail, with one hand in his vest, the other holds a book, his is dressed in a black suit with a whie shirt, behind him is a large red swag drapery with tassel, printed under the portrait is "Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1861, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for Southern District of New York/ ABRAHAM LINCOLN./ SIXTEENTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES./ PUBLISHED BY CURRIER & IVES 152 NASSAU St. N.Y./720"
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