From The Gettysburg Battlefield To The Appomattox Courthouse

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[Artist "Frost" unidentified]. Rehearsing the Gettysburg speech. [1863?].

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[Artist unidentified]. First meeting of Grant & Lincoln. [1864?].

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[Artist unidentified]. At Willard’s June 1864. [1864].

Three Artistic Images of Lincoln (1863–1864)
Shown here are three contemporary pencil and wash images of Lincoln.  The first, signed by “Frost,” depicts the president composing the Gettysburg Address.  The second work imagines the first meeting of Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant, exaggerating the difference in height between the 6’ 4” president and the 5’ 5” general.  The third work shows a pensive president sitting in Willard’s, at that time Washington’s most famous—and the country’s largest—hotel.

Lincoln Collection. Abraham Lincoln, Miscellaneous Papers, IV (102).  Source unknown.