Mary Lincoln Extra Credit Questions

[RJNorton]

Excellent, Eva! In addition to what the article you linked to said, this fake fooled several authors including Carl Sandburg. In his Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow Carl Sandburg devoted an entire page to this portrait; the caption reads, "From a painting by Francis B. Carpenter, White House resident in 1864 and author of Six Months in the White House. An idealized portrait executed some time after the war."

I have at least one more book that includes the portrait and credits Carpenter.

Eva, you may already have won free tickets to Fred Smith's (as I know you appreciate aesthetically pleasing places), but in case you have not, I am sending one more.