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c. 1869 Abraham Lincoln Steel Plate Engraving by Henry Gugler titled LINCOLN

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c. 1869 Abraham Lincoln Steel Plate Engraving by Henry Gugler titled LINCOLN
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Abraham Lincoln Steel Plate Engraving by Henry Gugler c. 1869 at Its Time the Largest “LINCOLN” Engraving Made
c. 1869, “LINCOLN” titled Mammoth Size Steel Plate Engraving of Abraham Lincoln, Measuring 21.25” x 27.5”, engraved by Henry Gugler after two years of labor, Very Fine.
This fine Print was at its time the largest Steel Plate Engraving of Abraham Lincoln produced. Measuring 21.25” x 27.5”, some paper thin losses to far outer margin edges from a prior framing. Title reading “LINCOLN” located below the portrait image. Shortly after Lincoln’s assassination, many artists sought to commemorate the fallen President with paintings, statues and other forms of portraiture. John H. Littlefield, a presidential campaign worker for Lincoln during the election of 1860, commissioned Gugler, then a Vignette Engraver for the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing, to create an engraving from which prints could be created and sold. After two years of labor, the largest engraving of our Sixteenth President was produced. The image on the two-by-three foot steel plate, and the prints made from it, capture the distinguished look of one of our nation’s most cherished leaders. One of the largest, most impressive, and the most desirable Abraham Lincoln line portraits ever engraved on steel. A great example for display due to its bold appearance and mammoth size.