The Late Lamented President Lincoln
Cooper Hewitt

The Late Lamented President Lincoln

Thomas Stevens, English, 1828–1888 · 1865–1869

Medium: silk Technique: jacquard woven
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Bookmark or stevengraph with a portrait medallion of Abraham Lincoln surmounted by an eagle perched on a shield flag that holds a banner in its beak that reads "E Pluribus Unum." Inscription at top reads: "Assassinated at Washington 14 April 1865," and just below another inscription: "I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by. And if it be the pleasure of Almighty God. To die by. (A Lincoln)

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