LINCOLN ASSASSINATION]. GARDNER, Alexander, photographer. Original albumen photograph of the execution of the Lincoln assassination conspirators, Washington, D.C., 7 July 1865. Albumen print, 6¼ x 8¾, mounted on card (card chipped along edges). Captioned on mount in a contemporary hand.
LINCOLN ASSASSINATION]. GARDNER, Alexander, photographer. Original albumen photograph of the execution of the Lincoln assassination conspirators, Washington, D.C., 7 July 1865. Albumen print, 6¼ x 8¾, mounted on card (card chipped along edges). Captioned on mount in a contemporary hand. "AFTER THE DROP": THE EXECUTION OF THE LINCOLN ASSASSINATION CONSPIRATORS . A grim, justly famous image, perhaps the best known of the famous series recorded by the camera of Alexander Gardner (assisted by Timothy O'Sullivan) in the yard of the Washington Penitentiary on the morning of 7 July 1865. These constitute a unique photographic record of the execution. The grim image shows the scaffold and the dangling, hooded bodies of Mary Surratt (who kept a boardinghouse where the conspirators met), George Atzerodt (charged with the attempted assassination of Vice President Johnson), David Herold (who assisted Booth on his flight from Washington) and Lewis Payne (who attempted to assassinate Secretary of War Stanton). As Gardner's biographer, Mark Katz has written, these scenes "remain the most vivid images from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It was the longest picture-story recording of an event to date, capturing a complex, significant series of events. Gardner and O'Sullivan's execution series was a 19th-century precursor of the kind of photo-journalism that subsequently became so important" (Witness to an Era, p.192.). Even separate images from the series, which occur in several sizes, have become rare.
LINCOLN ASSASSINATION]. GARDNER, Alexander, photographer. Original albumen photograph of the execution of the Lincoln assassination conspirators, Washington, D.C., 7 July 1865. Albumen print, 6¼ x 8¾, mounted on card (card chipped along edges). Captioned on mount in a contemporary hand.
LINCOLN ASSASSINATION]. GARDNER, Alexander, photographer. Original albumen photograph of the execution of the Lincoln assassination conspirators, Washington, D.C., 7 July 1865. Albumen print, 6¼ x 8¾, mounted on card (card chipped along edges). Captioned on mount in a contemporary hand. "AFTER THE DROP": THE EXECUTION OF THE LINCOLN ASSASSINATION CONSPIRATORS . A grim, justly famous image, perhaps the best known of the famous series recorded by the camera of Alexander Gardner (assisted by Timothy O'Sullivan) in the yard of the Washington Penitentiary on the morning of 7 July 1865. These constitute a unique photographic record of the execution. The grim image shows the scaffold and the dangling, hooded bodies of Mary Surratt (who kept a boardinghouse where the conspirators met), George Atzerodt (charged with the attempted assassination of Vice President Johnson), David Herold (who assisted Booth on his flight from Washington) and Lewis Payne (who attempted to assassinate Secretary of War Stanton). As Gardner's biographer, Mark Katz has written, these scenes "remain the most vivid images from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It was the longest picture-story recording of an event to date, capturing a complex, significant series of events. Gardner and O'Sullivan's execution series was a 19th-century precursor of the kind of photo-journalism that subsequently became so important" (Witness to an Era, p.192.). Even separate images from the series, which occur in several sizes, have become rare.
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