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| Keywords: Lincoln O-21 by Marsh, 1860.jpg From Metropolitan Museum of Art <small>This photograph made in Springfield Illinois on May 20 1860 was the first portrait taken of Abraham Lincoln after he had received the nomination for president at the Republican National Convention in Chicago It is one of five photographs taken by William Marsh for Marcus L Ward a delegate from Newark New Jersey Although many in the East had read Lincoln's impassioned speeches few had actually seen the senator from Illinois At fifty-one years old Lincoln appears much younger in this photograph innocent as yet of the great toll the presidency would take on him His face is an odd contra diction of parts his right eye typically wanders his large right ear flaps behind a high cheekbone and sunken cheek and his hair described by Sir William Howard Russell as a thatch of wild Republican hair is loosely combed He did not grow his characteristic beard until October 1860 The first president of the United States to wear a beard Lincoln appears cleanshaven in only one-third of the more than one hundred known photographs Yet Lincoln is ruggedly handsome Marsh presents the face of the prairie lawyer from the backwoods of Kentucky the man who would declare in support of the Union A house divided against itself cannot stand ; the man who only two years after this photograph was made would deliver the Emancipation Proclamation and who in his second inaugural address in 1865 spoke of reconstructing a vital new country from the ashes of the South With malice toward none; with charity for all </small> 1860 5 20 photograph Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY object history Rinhart Galleries; Gilman Paper Company Collection New York July 19 1985 exhibition history credit line Ostendorf O-21; Meserve M-21 accession number William Marsh Springfield IL http //www metmuseum org/Collections/search-the-collections/190036384 http //www physical-lincoln com/wiki/A60et2 Retouched picture cropped border removed some artifacts adjusted contrast scewing http //images metmuseum org/CRDImages/ph/original/DT12089 jpg PD-Art Abraham Lincoln in 1860 1860 portrait photographs | ||||
