Photographs
Photographs
Property from the Descendants of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin
John Wood
The First Inaugural of Abraham Lincoln, 4 March 1861
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October 17, 04:59 PM GMT
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Description
Attributed to John Wood
1806 - 1866
The First Inaugural of Abraham Lincoln, 4 March 1861
gelatin silver print, hinged to the original two-tone mount, with annotation and date 'Lincoln and Hamlin Inaugural March 4th 1861' in an old hand in ink on the mount, framed
image: 12 by 13⅛ in. (30.5 by 33.3 cm.)
frame: 19½ by 18 in. (49.5 by 45.7 cm.)
Executed in 1861, printing date unknown.
Stefan Lorant, Lincoln: His Life in Photographs (New York, 1941), p. 76 (detail)
Charles Hamilton and Lloyd Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs: An Album of Every Known Pose (Norman, 1963), O-54, p. 86 (variant cropping)
Lloyd Ostendorf, Lincoln’s Photographs: A Complete Album (Dayton, 1998), O-54, p. 86 (variant cropping)
Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln (Pleasantville: Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation, 2015), p. 145 (variant cropping)
Adrienne Lundgren, Magnificent Intentions: John Wood, First Federal Photographer, 1856-1863 (Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress, 2024), pl. 3 and fig. 4.3d
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