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Lot 66
Lincoln--The Last Photo, 1865
Estimate: $400 - $600
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Alexander Gardner's famed final photograph ever taken of Abraham Lincoln, February 5, 1865, in Washington, D. C., before Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theatre. Giclee on canvas, from the National Portrait Gallery
When Gardner was going to develop this photograph, the glass plate cracked across Lincoln's head. Gardner planned to discard it, but when Lincoln was assassinated, he decided to develop just one single photograph from the cracked plate. That unique photograph is held at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D. C.
frame: 30 x 25 in.
Provenance: Property from a Wimberley, Texas art and antiques collector
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