The Home of Abraham Lincoln
Louis Prang and Company, Boston, American, active 1860 - 1909
1860
Hand colored lithograph on wove paper
Sheet: 13 3/4 × 18 in. (34.9 × 45.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.957.5
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, lower left: L. PRANG & CO. LITH. BOSTON; center: HOME OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN/Springfield, Ill.s 1860/He left it in peace, to preside over a nation, then in bondage./He now reposed under its soil a martyr to the Freedom he won.
Provenance
The Book & Print Shop, Cora McDevitt Wilson (1880-1975), Hanover, New Hampshire; sold to present collection, 1957.
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