LOT #43037 |
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Abraham Lincoln: Colorized Engraving by A.H. Ritchie....
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Description
Abraham Lincoln: Colorized Engraving by A.H. Ritchie. 25" x 34" (sight) beautiful hand-colored print of Alexander Hay Ritchie's steel engraving, Death of Lincoln, depicting Abraham Lincoln on his deathbed surrounded by family, doctors, friends and government officials. Lincoln's eldest son, Robert, stands at the head of the bed leaning over his father. Matted to an overall size of 32" x 40".After being shot on the evening of April 14, 1865, Lincoln remained unconscious through the night and died at 7:22 a.m. on April 15. Ritchie, a popular nineteenth-century engraver, created this imagined scene to memorialize the event. His composition gathers together the many individuals who passed in and out of Lincoln's room throughout the night, depicting them assembled at once in the small bedroom at the rear of the Petersen House, the boarding house across the street from Ford's Theatre where Lincoln was taken after the shooting. In reality, the space could not have accommodated such a gathering; additionally, due to his great height, Lincoln lay diagonally across the bed rather than parallel as shown here.
Notably, Mary Todd Lincoln is absent from Ritchie's depiction. At one point during the night, Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, ordered her removed from the room, as she was overcome with grief. She was permitted to return shortly before 7:00 a.m., just in time to witness her husband's final moments.
Condition: Some creasing near the top, otherwise in fine condition.
Auction Info
2026 March 18 The Dan Madsen Collection of Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain Memorabilia Americana & Political Signature® Auction #6335 (go to Auction Home page)
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