L'assassinat du Président Lincoln

[Don1946]

These are fascinating images. I'd also be interested in having more information on the sources and online links, if that is not too much trouble to supply Dave.
I'm working on a book dealing with the international response to Lincoln's death. I want to find illustrations, photographs, artifacts that document the public reaction. If any of you have leads, I would be very grateful. This post has already given me a couple of promising ones, including l'illustration which I find online, at least with a paid subscription.
Many thanks
Don

[BettyO]

I swear they get funnier and funnier....this one appears as if Booth was welcomed into the box and then made a quick exit - with the permission of all the occupants! No confusion, no violence, no blood.... it appears as if Rathbone is actually assisting Booth by giving him a gentle push over the railing....


   


Here's the link -

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/9-lin...anger.html

Welcome aboard, Don! Your work sounds extremely interesting. I'm checking for links now and just stumbled onto this. However, I don't think that it's foreign -

[L Verge]

I never read it, but I'm pretty sure that the James O. Hall Research Center at Surratt House Museum has at least one thick volume of speeches and letters sent by foreign governments to the U.S. at the time of Lincoln's death. Our librarian can be reached at sandra.walia@pgparks.com.

[Dave Taylor]

The Dutch image comes from the newspaper , "De Hollandsche Illustratie" and you can find it here: http://library.brown.edu/cds/catalog/cat...4883531250

This German picture is supposedly based on an American painting: http://library.brown.edu/cds/catalog/cat...0&colid=45

I honestly don't know where this image is from: http://boothiebarn.com/picture-galleries...shot-14-1/
A print of it was for sale on eBay and I just saved the image.

Good luck!

[Don1946]

(01-12-2014 11:11 AM)L Verge Wrote:  I never read it, but I'm pretty sure that the James O. Hall Research Center at Surratt House Museum has at least one thick volume of speeches and letters sent by foreign governments to the U.S. at the time of Lincoln's death. Our librarian can be reached at sandra.walia@pgparks.com.

This is a link to the 1867 volume of condolence letters sent by governments, towns, citizens groups, and individuals. It is this collection of letters that forms the core of the book I'm working on. I'll post more on this project separately and later:
https://archive.org/details/assassination1267unit

[Don1946]

(01-12-2014 11:36 AM)Dave Taylor Wrote:  The Dutch image comes from the newspaper , "De Hollandsche Illustratie" and you can find it here: http://library.brown.edu/cds/catalog/cat...4883531250

This German picture is supposedly based on an American painting: http://library.brown.edu/cds/catalog/cat...0&colid=45

I honestly don't know where this image is from: http://boothiebarn.com/picture-galleries...shot-14-1/
A print of it was for sale on eBay and I just saved the image.

Good luck!

Thanks Dave. These are good finds. Of course, I'm going to have to go to Paris and London this summer to track down all the images I want.

[Dave Taylor]

I just came across a new German engraving of the assassination from a four volume book published in 1866 called:

John Wilkes Booth: oder, Das Opfer der Rebellion : illustrirter historischer Roman aus der neusten Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika

   

[Rogerm]

If anybody is interested, the title above the engraving means "John Wilkes Booth: or, the Victim of the Rebellion: an illustrated, historical novel from the recent history of the United States of America."

[Don1946]

(02-13-2015 11:01 PM)Dave Taylor Wrote:  I just came across a new German engraving of the assassination from a four volume book published in 1866 called:

John Wilkes Booth: oder, Das Opfer der Rebellion : illustrirter historischer Roman aus der neusten Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika

Dave, Good find. That is amazing that a four volume book would find a German speaking audience in 1866. Can you direct me to the volume and page? I find with the old German script it is usually impossible to do word searches. I'll ask my friend Joerg Nagler, a Lincoln scholar at the Frederick Schiller University in Jena, Germany, to help with translation.
Many thanks for posting this.
--Don

[L Verge]

(02-13-2015 11:01 PM)Dave Taylor Wrote:  I just came across a new German engraving of the assassination from a four volume book published in 1866 called:

John Wilkes Booth: oder, Das Opfer der Rebellion : illustrirter historischer Roman aus der neusten Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika

Love the detailed art work, despite the historical flaws.

[Dave Taylor]

(02-14-2015 07:25 AM)Don1946 Wrote:  Dave, Good find. That is amazing that a four volume book would find a German speaking audience in 1866. Can you direct me to the volume and page? I find with the old German script it is usually impossible to do word searches. I'll ask my friend Joerg Nagler, a Lincoln scholar at the Frederick Schiller University in Jena, Germany, to help with translation.
Many thanks for posting this.
--Don

Don, the engraving of the assassination is on page 913 of the fourth volume. There are also engravings of the funeral in that volume (I didn't record the page numbers), and this one of the capture of Booth which I've seen before as a tri-language lithograph.

[BettyO]

Fascinating find, Dave! Thanks so very much! I bet Eva can most definitely translate this!

[Anita]

Thanks Dave. How exciting to discover new images to add to your collection. The variety of interpretations of the same event both historically and artistically is fascinating.

[Eva Elisabeth]

(02-14-2015 02:46 PM)BettyO Wrote:  Fascinating find, Dave! Thanks so very much! I bet Eva can most definitely translate this!

I've skimmed some pages. The book is written as a novel and in a hilarious way inaccurate - e.g. it reveals Mrs Surratt was definitely guilty and involved, and Atzerodt was the true brain of the conspiracy: Mrs. Surratt leads the discussion between the conspirators as for how to kidnap the president and asks the others to come up with plans and suggestions. Atzerodt suggests to kidnap him by stopping his carriage and bringing him in another carriage to the Mississippi near Alexandria (YES!!! And the author was an army officer and Governor of Virginia!). O'Laughlin: "Oh, yes, I see, and Harold and I will row him across the Mississippi. Another carriage will wait on the other side and take him via Leesburg to Richmond." Atzerodt: "Exactly. This is my plan."

As for the German audience - it was certainly huge since 516,000 Germans and about 216,000 German-born soldiers fought in Union army. Several Lincoln biographies were published in the 19th and early 20th century, either translations from English or directly written by Germans, e.g. Carl Schurz. In 1928, even a drama ("Abraham Lincoln - Ein Schauspiel") was written by a German author and performed at prestigious theaters. Also Thomas Dixon's 1920 play, "A Man of the People: A Drama of Abraham Lincoln" had been translated into German.

[L Verge]

(02-14-2015 02:46 PM)BettyO Wrote:  Fascinating find, Dave! Thanks so very much! I bet Eva can most definitely translate this!

And Rogerm is fantastic with languages also.