An individual portrait-format carte de visite of President Abraham Lincoln, captured from life by Mathew Brady on 16 May 1862. The composition captures a full-length, left-facing profile of Lincoln seated in a decorative upholstered armchair beside a marble-topped parlor table supporting a heavy book. He is clad in his signature dark frock coat with a soft white collar and hand-tied bowtie. The verso of this mount is blank, indicating an un-marked variant common among localized regional gallery distributions or early wartime print runs utilizing Brady's original glass plate negative. This classic image is officially cataloged as Meserve No. 41 (and Ostendorf O-55), representing one of the definitive likenesses from Lincoln's first major mid-war photographic sitting in Washington, D.C. 

The albumen print retains an exceptional, warm historic sepia-cream tone with strong contrast. The mount is structurally flat, solid, and entirely untrimmed.