The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print (Harold Holzer, Gabor S. Boritt, Mark E. Neely Jr. - LP) tea service by Eric Wittenberg

by Eric Wittenberg

and James Longstreet

the Wilderness

abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass among them

The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print (Harold Holzer, Gabor S. Boritt, Mark E. Neely Jr. - LP) tea service by Eric WittenbergThe Lincoln Image documents how popular prints helped make Lincoln's a household face, deliberately crafting the image of a man of the people, someone with whom an ordinary American could identify. Featuring the work of Currier and Ives, John Sartain, and other artists and printmakers, this lavishly illustrated volume pairs original photographs and paintings with the prints made from them. That juxtaposition shows how printmakers reworked the original