Vignetted bust-length portrait of President Abraham Lincoln. Lithograph. after photograph taken in Washington, D.C.: Anthony Berger, Brady Gallery, 9 February 1864. 10 7/16 x 13 9/16 in. O-92 variant.

A fine period lithographic interpretation of the famous "Five-Dollar-Bill Pose" captured by photographer Anthony Berger on 9 February 1864, taken shortly after he was re-nominated as the Republican Party's presidential candidate. After his death, Robert T. Lincoln would later write that the portrait was "the most satisfactory likeness of him." (Hamilton & Ostendorf, p. 176). 

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