The Old Print Shop

Assassination of President Lincoln.

  • ARTIST: J. Baker

  • MEDIUM: Lithograph,

    DATE: c. 1865.

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 9 5/8 x 13 7/8" (24.3 x 35.1 cm.).

  • DESCRIPTION: A curious version of this dreadful event, showing John Wilkes Booth leaping from the balcony with a bloody knife clutched in his hand. On the balcony under a pair of opera glasses is a Ford's Theatre program naming the play "My American Cousin," which was being presented that evening, April 14, 1865. With no publication line and signed on the stone.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition with slight staining and a few repaired tears in the upper margin.

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