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Abraham Lincoln
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A day or two after President-elect Abraham Lincoln
arrived in Washington for his inauguration, March
4, 1861, he visited the photographic studio of Mathew
Brady. This image was one of several taken by cameraman
Alexander Gardner. In the midst of the secession
crises, Lincoln appears deeply in thought and is
wearing the new beard he had begun growing after
receiving a letter from a young lady suggesting
that he do so. This photographic session was apparently
for the benefit of Harper’s Weekly,
which published an engraved version of this image
several weeks later. |
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Mathew Brady Studio (active 1844–1883)
Collodion glass-plate negative, 1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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