File:Abraham Lincoln 1863 Portrait (3x4 cropped).jpg
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Abraham Lincoln
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Scholars and enthusiasts alike believe this portrait of Abraham Lincoln, taken on November 8, 1863, eleven days before his famed Gettysburg Address, to be the best photograph of him ever taken. Lincoln’s character was notoriously difficult to capture in pictures, but Alexander Gardner’s close-up portrait, quite innovative in contrast to the typical full-length portrait style, comes closest to preserving the expressive contours of Lincoln’s face and his penetrating gaze. Photograph taken by Alexander Gardner, 1863. |
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| Date | 8 November 1863 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | matte collodion print | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 32.7 cm (12.8 in); width: 25.2 cm (9.9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Credit line | Moses Parker Rice (1839-1925), possibly one of Gardner’s former assistants, copyrighted this portrait in the late nineteenth century, along with other photographs by Gardner. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source | museums.fivecolleges.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| current | 01:50, 6 February 2025 | | 2,126 × 2,835 (2.74 MB) | Wabbuh | File:Abraham Lincoln O-77 matte collodion print.jpg cropped 3 % horizontally, 3 % areawise using CropTool with lossless mode. |
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