Authors

Contributor

Frank and Virginia Williams

Description

This is a black and white illustration of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln is depicted as wearing a dark suit, vest and tie with a white shirt while leaning against a table with his left arm resting on a book and his right hand is holding a sheaf of papers near his chest. "Entered according to act of Congress [?] by Johnson, Fry and Co. in the clerks office of the district courts of the southern district of N. Y." is along the edge of the illustration. Lincoln's signature is depicted beneath the illustration with the information "From the original painting by Chappel in the possession of the publishers" beneath the signature. This illustration is from volume four of Abraham Lincoln : A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.

Publication Date

1890

Rights

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Publisher

New York : The Century Co

Time Period

1890-1899

Subjects

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Object Type

image

Format (original)

illustration

Format (digital)

JPG

Digital ID

FVW_NH_V4_A-Lincoln_001

Source

Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln, Volume 4

Repository

The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.

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