File:Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Copy of the print by Thomas Doney LCCN2013648758.jpg

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English: Title: Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Copy of the print by Thomas Doney Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print : albumen silver.
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Author Doney, Thomas, printmaker; Hesler, Alexander, 1823-1895, photographer
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Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress
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  • A copy photograph probably made from the 1860 mezzotint by Thomas Doney, which was based on a photo taken in 1857 by Alexander Hesler.
  • "A likeness based on Hesler's photograph is Thomas Doney's mezzotint, first published in 1860. On July 30, 1860, Lincoln wrote to Doney and thanked him for a copy of 'the picture (I know not the artistic designation).' Meserve considered it a second pose from the Hesler sitting of 1857." (Source: Ostendorf, p. 257)
  • Printed on back of mount: W.R. McCormick, with Mrs. W.A. Reed, Quincy, Ill.
  • Handwritten on back of mount: "1858 & 60; Hon. John H. Nichalay [i.e. Nicolay], Washington, USA; Compliments of K.K. (?) Jones, Quincy, Ill."
  • Title devised by Library staff.
  • Ostendorf, no. 2 (variant)
  • Meserve, no. 101
  • Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 257.
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prints and photographs division
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lincoln, abraham · albumen prints · portrait photographs

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