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.

[BettyO]

Facinating - thanks, Dave!

Some of these images are hysterical - particularly the last one of Lincoln with no beard and the other with his arm thrown up over his head....

Can't wait to see the Surratt one -

[Jim Garrett]

Is that a flint-lock pistol?

[Rogerm]

Very interesting, Dave. Just for the record, the third "German" engraving that you mention is actually a Dutch one.

[BettyO]

I found these rather humorous engravings online - also foreign -

Here, it looks like a Lincoln Lookalike is assassinating Lincoln - certainly NOT Booth...

   


Here, Lincoln is shot by someone - certainly again, NOT Booth! Mrs. Lincoln bears a remarkable resemblance to a 1960s Julie Christie!

   

[Dave Taylor]

(01-08-2014 11:09 PM)Jim Garrett Wrote:  Is that a flint-lock pistol?

I didn't even notice that until you mentioned it, Jim. You are definitely correct.

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(01-08-2014 11:11 PM)Rogerm Wrote:  Very interesting, Dave. Just for the record, the third "German" engraving that you mention is actually a Dutch one.

Thank you, Roger. English is the only language I know so, it's all Greek to me!

[Eva Elisabeth]

Here's another one with Booth's skull:
   
I have no idea why the description says:"Booth had committed suicide on April 26, 1865"???
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a40845/

Does anyone know where this is from?
   

[RJNorton]

(01-11-2014 12:14 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Does anyone know where this is from?

Eva, please go to Dave's picture gallery here. I think both images are the same, and if so, it was from Harper's Weekly, April 29, 1865.

[Gene C]

You'll find that issue of Harpers Weekly here

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundati...incoln.htm

[Dave Taylor]

Another great resource for editions of Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper is Archive.org. Some university scanned their bound collections of these newspapers and then uploaded them there.

Here's the link for the bound edition of Harper's Weekly that covers January 1865 - December 1865: https://archive.org/details/harpersweeklyv9bonn

Here's the link for the bound edition of Frank Leslie's that covers September 1864 - September 1865:
https://archive.org/details/franklesliesilluv1920lesl

Their grouped by volume number rather than by date. So, if you're looking for another period of time, you may have to search and read the dates on the top of the newspapers to see if you have the right volume.

[Houmes]

(01-11-2014 12:14 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Here's another one with Booth's skull:

I have no idea why the description says:"Booth had committed suicide on April 26, 1865"???
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a40845/

Does anyone know where this is from?

The image of the conspirators sitting as "Gallow's Birds" was from a lithograph titled "Uncle Sam's Menagerie" published by G. Querner, copyrighted in Washington, D.C., on June 7, 1865. It presents an inflammatory (and premature) statement on the fate of the conspirators while the trial was taking place. It's interesting that all of the accused conspirators are depicted as birds except Mrs. Surratt. She's depicted as a rat with a rat's tail, mocking her name.

[Dave Taylor]

And Edman Spangler is depicted as an ass. (mule)

http://boothiebarn.com/picture-galleries...menagerie/

[Anita]

Dave, have you seen this one? It's also on a UK site. http://www.lookandlearn.com/blog/17586/l...led-booth/

[Dave Taylor]

(01-11-2014 02:15 PM)Anita Wrote:  Dave, have you seen this one? It's also on a UK site. http://www.lookandlearn.com/blog/17586/l...led-booth/

Thanks, Anita. That's a new one to me. There were also a few others there I hadn't seen:

[Eva Elisabeth]

Dave, do you have any further info on the artist of the Dutch image or where it was published? It's interesting because Harold Holzer states there were only two known Lincoln images by Dutch artists: one early, beardless one by P. Blommers to introduce Lincoln in the beginning, and one by a lithographer named Desguerrois, a group portrait of Lincoln, Jefferson, and the Italian Prime Minister Ricasoli. (The Dutch were obviously rather neutral and disinterested regarding the CV.)