COLOR LITHOGRAPH "ABRAHAM LINCOLN & HIS FAMILY"

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Item Code: 435-39

Ca. late 1860s. Published by Kelly & Sons, 621 South 11th St., Philada. & 383 Eighth Ave., N.Y. Measuring 33.5 x 26" the print is mounted in a glassed, period wooden frame, painted black, w/hang-wire & slatted wood backing. Inasmuch as there was never a photo of the Lincoln family, this composite pieces together separate photos of Robert Lincoln (young union officer standing), Mary Lincoln & the famous shot of Lincoln & his son Tad looking at a picture book. The small child next to Mary Lincoln is an artistic fabrication. The Lincoln's had a small boy, Eddie, who died at the age of three & half in 1850, and an older one, Willie, who died at age eleven in 1862, but no other children, & certainly no small toddler during their white house residence. 

Though the print colors remain bright, they've darkened somewhat with age & there are traces of unobtrusive water-staining on the left edge of the print & a couple moderately darkened spots along the lower margin. Also a handful of chipped spots around the wooden frame, though nothing that couldn't be easily touched up. Else VG. Handsome.

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