Beschreibung:

Lot of 3, including an illustrated copy of Abraham Lincoln's Farewell Address, 10.75 x 15 in. (sight), framed to 23 x 26 in., delivered in Springfield, Illinois in 1861 in advance of his departure for his inauguration in Washington, DC. Reprinted after his assassination in 1865, with excerpted quote reading, "But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated upon this spot than surrender it," printed beneath an allegorical Liberty weeping over Lincoln's casket, with lamenting Civil War veterans present on either side. Also with a an engraving, 15 x 20.5 in. (sight), framed to 30 x 33.5 in., by William Sartain Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1865 of a standing Lincoln, as well as a reproduction print, 18 x 21.75 in. (sight), framed to 23.75 x 28 in., after the 1860 Lincoln portrait by Peter Alexander Healy (American, 1813-1894), the model for the postage stamp commemorating the sesquicentennial of Lincoln's birth. Provenance:The Mr. & Mrs. Jack L. Smith Collection of Lincolniana