The Assassination of President Lincoln, at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C. April 14th, 1865

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Publisher Currier & Ives (American, 1857 - 1907)

Datepublished 1865

MediumHand-colored lithograph

DimensionsComposition: 7 15/16 × 12 1/4 in. (20.2 × 31.1 cm) Sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams, Class of 1891, 1959

Object number1959.8

Not on view

DescriptionScene at Ford's theater in which President Lincoln, sitting with family and friends, is shot by an assassin.

Collections

American Art

Additional Details

Exhibition History 1988
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "America on the Move," January 9 - February 21, 1988 (no cat.);

1963
Utica, NY (Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, Auditorium Gallery). January 13 - February 10, 1963.

Provenance 1959: Hamilton College, by bequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams

Markings None noted.

Published References Frederick A. Conningham, CURRIER & IVES PRINTS: AN ILLUSTRATED CHECKLIST (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983), no. 291

Signature Not signed.

Inscribed "Maj. Rathborne. Miss Harris. Mrs. Lincoln President. Assassin." from lower left to right in typeset in black ink; "THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, / AT FORD'S THEATRE WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 14th.. 1865." at lower center in typeset in black ink; "Entered according to Act of Congress AD. 1865, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of N.Y. / Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St. New York." at lower center in typeset in lower center; "63" at lower left in pencil; "9" at on verso at upper right in pencil.