Glass-plate negative of Gardner Lincoln portrait [graphic].

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Glass-plate negative of Gardner Lincoln portrait [graphic].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56576403

The collection consists of a ca. 1864 contemporaneous wet-plate collodion glass negative of the original Alexander Gardner wet-plate collodion portrait of Abraham Lincoln taken on 8 November 1863, most likely made by Moses P. Rice, a of Gardner studio photographer; the envelope in which IHS received the negative; and a 2004 print made from a duplicate negative (a negative of a transparency output from a digital scan of the ca. 1864 negative). In 1863, sculptor Sarah Fisher Ames commissioned Gardner to make this portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln sat for it on 8 November, just eleven days before delivering the Gettysburg Address. This pose is one of the rare photographs of Lincoln looking directly at the viewer. It shows a haggard president with heavy lines on his face. His "lazy" left eye is noticeable. It is one of the best known photographs of Lincoln and was used by sculptor Daniel Chester French as the model for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

1 collodion wet-plate negative, 1 envelope, 1 print.

Indiana Historical Society Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7755099

Indiana Historical Society Library

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tz44c1 (person)

Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Rice, Moses P.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60g58nc (person)

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zs38d8 (person)

Alexander Gardner was born in Paisley, Scotland, on 17 October 1821. In May of 1851 Gardner visited the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London, where he saw the photographs of Mathew Brady. Upon his return to Scotland, Gardner began to experiment with photography and devoted his time to learning about this new art. In the spring of 1856 Gardner and his family immigrated to the United States and Gardner initiated contact with Mathew Brady. Brady hired Gardner and in February 1858, Gardner was put ...