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Lincoln Assassination Paintings/Depictions
01-13-2015, 06:30 AM (This post was last modified: 01-13-2015 06:37 AM by BettyO.)
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RE: Lincoln Assassination Paintings/Depictions
I thought that this one was really well rendered - at least the people portrayed look like who they are supposed to be; yet the stance and look of everyone in the box is rather indifferent to any perceived violence; Lincoln appears as if he's dozed off; Mary Lincoln looks bored and Rathbone, (for a man with a badly cut artery and practically bleeding to death), looks as if he's simply trying to touch JWB. Clara appears to think "What a RUDE man!" Booth himself seems to have done nothing but "crashed" the theatre box party rather than harmed anyone.....

   

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RE: Lincoln Assassination Paintings/Depictions - BettyO - 01-13-2015 06:30 AM

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