President Abraham Lincoln's Coffin,City Hall,Chicago,Illinois,1865,William Waud

Title: [Lincoln's coffin in the City Hall, Chicago]
Creator(s): Waud, William, d. 1878, artist
Date Created/Published: [1865 May 1 or 1]
Notes:
Title devised.
Inscribed on decorative banners within image: He left us sustained by our Prayers He returns embalmed in our tears; Liberty's great martyr.
Inscribed, as indicators within image: Entrance; Coffin.
Inscribed on verso: Catafalque in the City Hall, Chicago. The ceiling is draped black & white. The walls draped in folds all black with flag trophies at certain distances. The Catafalque is covered with black cloth & velvet all black with silver fringe & stars. Inside of d[itt]o & the pillars white with the exception of the ceiling inside the canopy which is black with white stars cut out through which the light is admitted to fall on the coffin.
Formerly attributed to Alfred R. Waud, with the call number DRWG/US - Waud, no. 398 (A size).
Published in: Harper's Weekly, 20 May 1865, p. 308, attributed to W. Waud.
Exhibited in: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 2003-2004.
Exhibited: 'With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition' the Library of Congress traveling show, 2010-2011.
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R2.2.398)
Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Death & burial.
Funeral rites & ceremonies--Union--1860-1870.
Coffins--1860-1870.
Women--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States--Illinois--Chicago
Drawings--American--1860-1870.
Bookmark /2004661349/
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