L'assassinat du Président Lincoln

[Dave Taylor]

I'm always on the look out for images of the assassination that I have never seen before. Yesterday, while seeing if I could find any information about Mary Surratt's photograph, I stumbled across this engraving:



I had never seen this particular engraving before. After some digging I discovered that this engraving was featured in the French illustrated newspaper, L'illustration, in May of 1865. Granted, I have a few engravings on my site that came from German newspapers or books (here's one, here's one, and here's another), but I never thought of looking for French engravings. While I've come up pretty empty thus far (its hard to do searches in French), I did stumble across this cover image for a French book about 12 historical assassinations:



I think this cover is very cool.

On a slightly similar note, I recently found a issue of the British illustrated newspaper, The Days' Doings, which contains some engravings of John Surratt. I ordered the page and it's being shipped over from England. Once I get it, I'll post the engravings it has. I previously posted a macabre cover image of The Days' Doings which contained an engraving of Booth's skeletal remains.