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Washington and Lincoln: The Father and the Saviour of Our Country

1865
Not on view
Composed as a commemorative image, this work was aimed at Northerners mourning a lost president. Lincoln and his youngest son, Tad, appear at right, with Mary Todd Lincoln and Robert, an older son who served in the army, at left. The likenesses of Tad and the president derive from a photograph Anthony Berger took in Mathew Brady’s Washington gallery on February 9, 1864, a few days before the president’s fifty-fifth birthday. The bible that Lincoln reads introduces a spiritual tone—in the photograph the president peruses an album—heightened by the small landscape on the back wall that depicts a ship sailing toward the setting sun, watched by a lone figure on shore.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Washington and Lincoln: The Father and the Saviour of Our Country
  • Artist: After G. Thomas (American, 19th century)
  • Publisher: Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857–1907)
  • Sitter: Abraham Lincoln (American, Hardin County, Kentucky 1809–1865 Washington, D.C.)
  • Sitter: George Washington (American, 1732–1799)
  • Date: 1865
  • Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
  • Dimensions: Image: 14 15/16 in. × 11 in. (38 × 27.9 cm)
    Sheet: 17 1/2 × 11 15/16 in. (44.5 × 30.4 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962
  • Object Number: 63.550.551
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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