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Lincoln's Gettysburg Portrait
- Creator:
- Leading Edge Products, Inc.
- Location:
- Unknown place made
- Origin Date:
- 1984
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
- overall: 24 in x 18 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.081.1939
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Fine Art
Description
This print features a reproduction of a painting of President Abraham Lincoln done from a photograph taken of him on November 8, 1863, in Washington, D. C. Above the image written in gold-colored script is the first sentence of President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal." The publisher's information is printed in the lower margin. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
