LINCOLN, Abraham]. GARDNER, Alexander, Photographer . Carte-de-visite portrait photograph signed ("A. Lincoln") as President, taken at Gardner's studio at 7th and D Streets, Washington, D.C., 9 August 1863. Albumen photograph, 3½ x2½ including card backing, lower corners rounded, top edge trimmed, verso with Gardner's backstamp . BOLDLY SIGNED by the President in ink in the lower blank portion. Hamilton and Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs: An Album of Every Known Pose , O-71B. A RESOLUTE PRESIDENT, ONE MONTH AFTER THE UNION VICTORIES AT GETTYSBURG AND VICKSBURG On Thursday, August 6, in accordance with a proclamation issued by Lincoln, a day of thanksgiving and prayer was observed throughout the North in the wake of recent important Union military successes at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. In this well-known portrait by Gardner, Lincoln is seated at at an ornate circular table, his legs crossed, holding a newspaper in his left hand, his reading glasses in his right. His expression--especially in the lines about his mouth--is resolute and determined. According to John Hay, who accompanied the President to Gardner's studio, Lincoln "was in very good spirits" that day. The images of Lincoln by Gardner that day are the first photographs taken in Gardner's new studio. Lincoln had promised Gardner to be the first to sit for a portrait, and decided on a Sunday visit, in order to avoid curiosity seekers and onlookers in the streets of the capital.
LINCOLN, Abraham]. GARDNER, Alexander, Photographer . Carte-de-visite portrait photograph signed ("A. Lincoln") as President, taken at Gardner's studio at 7th and D Streets, Washington, D.C., 9 August 1863. Albumen photograph, 3½ x2½ including card backing, lower corners rounded, top edge trimmed, verso with Gardner's backstamp . BOLDLY SIGNED by the President in ink in the lower blank portion. Hamilton and Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs: An Album of Every Known Pose , O-71B. A RESOLUTE PRESIDENT, ONE MONTH AFTER THE UNION VICTORIES AT GETTYSBURG AND VICKSBURG On Thursday, August 6, in accordance with a proclamation issued by Lincoln, a day of thanksgiving and prayer was observed throughout the North in the wake of recent important Union military successes at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. In this well-known portrait by Gardner, Lincoln is seated at at an ornate circular table, his legs crossed, holding a newspaper in his left hand, his reading glasses in his right. His expression--especially in the lines about his mouth--is resolute and determined. According to John Hay, who accompanied the President to Gardner's studio, Lincoln "was in very good spirits" that day. The images of Lincoln by Gardner that day are the first photographs taken in Gardner's new studio. Lincoln had promised Gardner to be the first to sit for a portrait, and decided on a Sunday visit, in order to avoid curiosity seekers and onlookers in the streets of the capital.
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