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Abraham Lincoln   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Alexander Gardner (1821–1882)  wikidata:Q661176
 
Alexander Gardner
Alternative names
Alex. Gardner; A. Gardner; Alexander Gardiner
Description Scottish photographer and war photographer
Date of birth/death 17 October 1821 Edit this at Wikidata 10 December 1882 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paisley Edit this at Wikidata Washington, D.C. Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1856-1871
Work location
Washington, D.C.; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; Kansas; Mississippi; Missouri; New York City Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q661176
Title
Abraham Lincoln
Description
Scholars and enthusiasts alike believe this portrait of Abraham Lincoln, taken on November 8, 1863, eleven days before his famed Gettysburg Address, to be the best photograph of him ever taken. Lincoln’s character was notoriously difficult to capture in pictures, but Alexander Gardner’s close-up portrait, quite innovative in contrast to the typical full-length portrait style, comes closest to preserving the expressive contours of Lincoln’s face and his penetrating gaze. Photograph taken by Alexander Gardner, 1863.
Date 8 November 1863
date QS:P571,+1863-11-08T00:00:00Z/11
Medium matte collodion print
Dimensions height: 32.7 cm (12.8 in); width: 25.2 cm (9.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,32.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,25.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q6803132
Credit line Moses Parker Rice (1839-1925), possibly one of Gardner’s former assistants, copyrighted this portrait in the late nineteenth century, along with other photographs by Gardner.
Source museums.fivecolleges.edu
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