Lincoln at Home

1867 · Hand-colored lithograph · Drawings and Prints

Composed as a commemorative image, this work was aimed at Northerners mourning a lost president. Lincoln and his youngest son, Tad, appear at right, with Mary Todd Lincoln and Robert, an older son who served in the army, at left. The likenesses of Tad and the president derive from a photograph Anthony Berger took in Mathew Brady’s Washington gallery on February 9, 1864, a few days before the president’s fifty-fifth birthday. The bible that Lincoln reads introduces a spiritual tone—in the photograph the president peruses an album—heightened by the small landscape on the back wall that depicts a ship sailing toward the setting sun, watched by a lone figure on shore.

Artist: Currier & Ives|G. Thomas|Abraham Lincoln|Mary Todd Lincoln|Robert Todd Lincoln|Thomas "Tad" Lincoln
Date: 1867
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962