The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print

by Gabor S. Boritt, Mark E. Neely Jr., Harold Holzer

Book Overview

How printmakers chronicled and influenced Lincoln's transfiguration into an American icon

Focusing on prints produced in Lincoln's lifetime and in the iconographically important months immediately following his death, this lavishly illustrated volume--now available in paperback for the first time--pairs original photographs and paintings with the prints made from them. Featuring the work of Currier and Ives, John Sartain, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252069846
• ISBN13: 9780252069840
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.1" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

An original and highly recommended work

Harold Holzer, Gabor S. Boritt, and Mark E. Neeley Jr. effectively collaborate to present The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln And The Popular Print. Their work, profusely enhanced with period photographs (as well as iconography immediately following his assassination) documenting how popular prints served to make Lincoln's image of the popular and political culture of his day. An original and highly recommended work, The Lincoln Image is a impressive study of painstaking and exhaustive scholarship that will be greatly appreciated by academia, Lincoln studies supplemental curriculum reading lists, and students of 19th Century American political history.