[Presidential Campaign Medal with portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin]
The Lincoln tintype in this campaign medal is a reversed copy of the famous "Cooper Union" carte de visite (Ostendorf O-17) made by Mathew B. Brady on the morning of February 27, 1860. The Hamlin tintype is a copy of a portrait by an unknown maker. The unknown maker of the medal likely produced the object on a mass scale for the Republican Party to be given away or sold at their headquarters throughout the United States.
Artwork Details
- Title: [Presidential Campaign Medal with portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin]
- Maker: Unknown
- Artist: After Mathew B. Brady (American, born Ireland, 1823?–1896 New York)
- Date: 1860
- Medium: Tintype
- Dimensions: Image: 1.4 cm (9/16 in.), diameter
Overall: 2.4 cm (15/16 in.), diameter - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, The Overbrook Foundation Gift, 2012
- Object Number: 2012.12
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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Charles Calverley
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