Object Details
- depicted
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Lincoln, Robert Todd
- Lincoln, Thomas
- Lincoln, William Wallace
- Lincoln, Mary Todd
- Hoover, Joseph
- Description
- In the years following Lincoln’s assassination, lithographic prints depicting the Lincoln family became popular among the Northern American public, often produced as commemoratives during anniversary celebrations. Since the family never sat for a formal portrait, artists relied on earlier photographs of its members to create their compositions, portraying the family members as they would have appeared at the start of Lincoln’s presidency. This black and white print from the late 1860s depicts the family members as they would have appeared at the start of Lincoln’s presidency. At center, President Lincoln sits cross-legged at a table, holding a book on his lap, as he looks up to Mary Todd at his right. Willie, leans against a table, gazing in the direction of his father. At the lower left, Tad marches into the scene, holding a toy drum. At the right, Robert Lincoln, dressed in his military uniform, looks out towards the viewer. Abraham Lincoln was not the only deceased family member at the time of this print’s creation. Willie had died from typhoid fever in 1862, sometime before the publication of this print. The print is “Respectfully Dedicated to the People of the United States.”
- Joseph Hoover was the most prominent Philadelphia publisher of chromolithographed parlor prints during the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1856, he established a woodturning and frame-making shop and began selling prints by 1865. Around 1868, he began supervising the lithography production at the firms of Duval & Hunter and James Queen, eventually founding his own printing plants in the mid-1870s. His chromolithographs won a medal of excellence at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. In 1893, he partnered with his son, Henry, and their firm produced between 600,000 and 700,000 chromolithographs per year.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- before 1869
- ID Number
- DL.60.2575
- catalog number
- 60.2575
- accession number
- 228146
- Object Name
- Lithograph
- Object Type
- Lithograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 17 7/8 in x 24 3/8 in; 45.4025 cm x 61.9125 cm
- overall: 22 in x 28 in; 55.88 cm x 71.12 cm
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Clothing & Accessories
- American Civil War Prints
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- U.S. National Government, executive branch
- Patriotism and Patriotic Symbols
- Furnishings
- Uniforms, Military
- Marriage
- Children
- Flowers
- Civil War
- Music
- depicted
- Family
- Record ID
- nmah_324889
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b5-0d33-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
