Abraham Lincoln
circa 1880
17 13/16 x 14 3/16 in. (45.2 x 36 cm)
Gustav Kruell
United States
(1843 - 1907)
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Wood engraving
Credit Line:
Bequest of Edith Holden Babcock
Accession Number:
1947.92
Location: Not currently on view
Based on a photograph taken by Samuel M. Fassett in 1859 in Chicago. The negative for this photo was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
Bibliography
For general information about the artist and his work, see "American Wood-Engravers: Gustav Kruell" in Scribner’s magazine, vol. XVII, no. 2, February 1895: pp. 186-188 and "Gustav Kruell, American Portrait Engraver on Wood," by Ralph Clifton Smith, Champlain, NY: Winifred Porter Truesdell, 1929: pp. 31, 76 (no. 493)
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Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
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Article Author: Smith, Ralph Clifton.
Article Title: Gustav Kruell, Wood Engraver.
Article Scope: Article.
Print Connoisseur.
New York, NY: W.P. Truesdell
Volume Number: VI,
Issue Number: 1, part three.
Issue Date: January 1926.
Page Number: 13, 25
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