Abraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious 1866 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Bronze Sentinel of Fifth

The Bronze Sentinel of Fifth Avenue casts one of the avenue's gilded guardians in the patient gravity of weathered metal — a statue keeping its long watch over the carriage trade

The street unfurls in the gaslit clamor of haberdashers and theater-goers

a memorial lithograph issued in the stunned weeks after Ford's Theatre

May 24th 1861 — a martyr's lithograph rushed to print within weeks of the killing

rich and historically grounded

Abraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious 1866 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Bronze Sentinel of FifthAbraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious 1866 arrives a year after Ford's Theatre, the fallen president recast in apotheosis a lithograph in the elevated mourning style the country reached for when grief required allegory, and the Union's preservation demanded its first secular saint. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and