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Six months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln: The Story of a Picture

In February 1864 Francis B. Carpenter began work on his painting First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.


He would go on to spend six months in the White House and in the company of Abraham Lincoln at the height of the American Civil War.

First published in 1866, just one year after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, Francis B. Carpenter provides us with a deeply personal portrait of one of the most iconic figures of American history.

 
 
 
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