Beschreibung:

Funeral Car Used at the Obsequies of President Lincoln in Philadelphia, April 22nd, 1865. Designed and Built by E. S. Earley, Undertaker, South East Corner of Tenth and Green Streets, Philadelphia.
Philadelphia: J. Haehnlen, 1865. Lithograph (605 x 765 mm). Condition: tissue backed. A week after Lincoln’s death, his funeral train arrived in Philadelphia and a military procession said to be several miles in length escorted the coffin to Independence Hall. "This Philadelphia street scene is featured by an enormous hearse pulled by eight horses and escorted by numerous attendants in deep mourning" (Wainwright). “Some 85,000 people filed past the coffin. The site associated with the nation’s founding now became the venue for giving homage to the fallen leader of the traumatic struggle to preserve the union” (Nash, First City, p. 250). Besides a moving relic of that event, this print is a fascinating advertising piece for the elaborate hearse’s maker, who while obviously proud of his work no doubt also sought a financial gain from the tragedy. rare , only one other copy has been located (Library Company of Philadelphia). Wainwright 146.