With Malice Toward None

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition    

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Etching of President-Elect Lincoln

Etching of President-Elect Lincoln (083.00.00)

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Artist Otto Schneider based his etching of Abraham Lincoln on a photograph taken by Alexander Hesler in Springfield, Illinois, on June 3, 1860. Lincoln’s law partner, William H. Herndon, wrote of the image: “There is the peculiar curve of the lower lip, the lone mole on the right cheek, and a pose of the head so essentially Lincolnian; no other artist has ever caught it.”

<p>Artist Otto Schneider based his etching of Abraham Lincoln on a photograph taken by Alexander Hesler in Springfield, Illinois, on June 3, 1860. Lincoln’s law partner, William H. Herndon, wrote of the image: “There is the peculiar curve of the lower lip, the lone mole on the right cheek, and a pose of the head so essentially Lincolnian; no other artist has ever caught it.”</p>