Abraham Lincoln 1860s Size:18x24 Offering a Perfect Balance of

Offering a Perfect Balance of Subtlety and Style

Declaration of Independence E Pluribus Unum 1776-1876

Abraham Lincoln With Malice Toward None With Charity for All — the closing cadence of the Second Inaugural set against Lincoln's gaunt likeness

the Sixteenth President rendered in the somber idiom reserved for martyrs

The Two Martyrs: Joseph and Hyrum Smith

Abraham Lincoln 1860s Size:18x24 Offering a Perfect Balance ofAbraham Lincoln 1860s a presidential likeness drawn from the war years, when the sixteenth president's gaunt features were studied as closely as battlefield maps. The image carries the weight of a country tearing itself toward something it could not yet name. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic