Sale 2486, Part I - The Harold Holzer Collection of Lincolniana, September 27, 2018

LINCOLN’S FINAL LIFE PORTRAIT 69 c   (PHOTOGRAPHY.) [Warren, Henry F.; photographer.] The Latest Photograph of President Lincoln, Taken on the Balcony at the White House, March 6, 1865. Albumen photograph, 8 x 6 inches, laid down on photographer’s mount with printed caption on recto; minimal foxing, browning on mount edges. [Waltham, MA, 1865] [4,000/6,000] the last known photograph of lincoln , taken two days after his “With malice toward none” second inaugural speech. Lincoln’s full beard has here been trimmed to a rather imposingly severe goatee. According to one story, photographer Henry Warren had no appointment with the president for this sitting, but tricked young Tad Lincoln into bringing his father to the balcony. “Posing just to please his son, Lincoln appears preoccupied and perhaps a little annoyed”—Hamilton and Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs, O-112 and pages 213-4. After the assassination, the image was re-issued with the caption “The Last Photograph of President Lincoln,” but this is the first edition.