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Portrait in script of Abraham Lincoln


Yankee printmakers capitalized on the positive reception given the Emancipation Proclamation by issuing scores of commemorative prints. In this lithograph, Abraham Lincoln’s portrait is formed from the text of the proclamation.


William H. Pratt (1858–circa 1888)
Lithograph, 1865
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

 

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