Raynors HCA 2015-05
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/21/2015
A complete issue of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated October 20, 1860, 16pp., disbound, VG. From the interior is presented a full page wood cut engraving, “Abraham Lincoln Of Illinois, The Presidential Candidate for the Republican Party - Photgraphed by Brady.” The printing has a slight horizontal scuff from being folded as well as slight discoloration in the margin. Remarkably, this is a mirror image of the Harper’s Weekly engraving of November 10, 1860, also attributed to the Brady photo. Photographer Mathew Brady took this portrait of Abraham Lincoln at his studio in New York City on the same day that Lincoln gave his now-famous Cooper Union address. Brady retouched the photograph, smoothing facial lines and straightening his subject’s “roving” left eye. The effect was striking, and what Lincoln jokingly referred to as his “shadow” later appeared on hundreds of campaign buttons, posters, and small printed cartes-de-visite.
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