Abraham Lincoln in 1863 Size:24x36 A documentary engraving of the

A documentary engraving of the Sublime Porte's first emissary to Washington

the country outside it

its spires drawn with the same confidence the city used to announce that American wealth had finally learned to build in stone

1863 — the engineer-soldier rendered in the sober register of wartime portraiture

on his collar marking him as a citizen-soldier of empire's loud debut

Abraham Lincoln in 1863 Size:24x36 A documentary engraving of theAbraham Lincoln in 1863 a portrait fixed at the war's grimmest hinge, the year of Gettysburg and the Proclamation, when the President's face had already begun its slow erosion into the gaunt, gathering mask the country would later remember as resolve. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers