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Washington and Lincoln. (Apotheosis.)

Description: Albumen print after a painting by Stephen James Ferris (b. 1835). Copyright: J. A. Arthur. Depicts Lincoln being embraced by George Washington, surrounded by clouds. Washington holds a laurel wreath over Lincoln's head. Imagery invokes traditional portrayals of martyrs receiving a crown. See also Pr 670.
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Date: c1865
Call number: photPF 25496
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Washington and Lincoln. (Apotheosis)

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Depicts Lincoln being embraced by George Washington, surrounded by clouds. Washington holds a laurel wreath over Lincoln's head. Imagery invokes traditional portrayals of martyrs receiving a crown.

photCL 511 (14)

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Abraham Lincoln : memorial print

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Image of an obelisk monument draped in an American flag, the name Lincoln surrounded by laurel wreath just below the flag. Printed below the wreath is: Born Feby. 12 1809. / Ours the Cross / His the Crown / Assassinated April 14 1865. One the left of the obelisk is a man in civilian dress, on the right a soldier, hands in prayer while leaning on a musket. At the base of the monument, Columbia stands in a red and blue dress with her hand over her face while weeping, broken shackles hanging on either side.

Pr. Box 680

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Abraham Lincoln, The Martyr, Victorious

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Engraving, after a design by W.H. Hermans. Depicts Lincoln ascending to heaven, being welcomed by the spirit of George Washington. They are surrounded by angels. One holds an elongated feather (quill?) and is placing a laurel wreath on Lincoln's head. Imagery suggests portrayal of Lincoln as martyr and secular saint. Judd Stewart cat. #127

Pr. Box 673/32

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The arms of all nations: from an enamel by Mr. H. Buss, Great Newport Street, London, exhibited in the Great Exhibition

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Title derived from print. Includes colored images of the coat of arms of nations participating in the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, England. The coat of arms are surrounded by a wreath of leaves with a crown at the top. Below the wreath is a ribbon that says "Peace on Earth good will towards men" and "Exhibition of the industry of all nations."

priPEF 95

Lucilline

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Image of an advertisement for Lucilline balm made by Lucent Oil Work of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; a woman in robes and a cape wearing a laurel wreath on the head sits and gazes upward raptly while holding paper and a quill pen on her lap.

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Image of a page of calligraphy and penmanship examples featuring and alphabet flanked by birds, a lion, and an angel with a laurel wreath and herald trumpet; offset image of numbers surrounded by an elaborate frame made up of a bird next to a tree and flowers on verso.

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