Grand Reception of the Notabilities of the Nation at the White House

Multiple artists/makers

1865

Not on view

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Title: Grand Reception of the Notabilities of the Nation at the White House
Lithographer: Major & Knapp (New York, NY)
Publisher: Frank Leslie (American (born England), Ipswich 1821–1880 New York)
Sitter: Abraham Lincoln (American, Hardin County, Kentucky 1809–1865 Washington, D.C.)
Sitter: Mary Todd Lincoln (American, Lexington, Kentucky 1818–1882 Springfield, Massachusetts)
Sitter: Ulysses S. Grant (American, Point Pleasant, Ohio 1822–1885 Mount McGregor, New York)
Sitter: Andrew Johnson (American, Raleigh, North Carolina 1808–1875 Elizabethton, Ohio)
Sitter: Julia Dent Grant
Sitter: William Tecumseh Sherman (American, Lancaster, Ohio 1820–1891 New York)
Sitter: George Gordon Meade (American, 1815–1872)
Sitter: Joseph Hooker (American, 1814–1879)
Sitter: Charles Sumner (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1811–1874 Washington, D.C.)
Date: 1865
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: Image: 14 3/4 × 20 1/16 in. (37.5 × 50.9 cm)
Sheet: 17 1/8 × 20 1/16 in. (43.5 × 50.9 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Harry G.Friedman, 1963
Object Number: 63.706.112
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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