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Lithograph portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit seated at a draped table with a map, bust, globe, and arched window behind him.

Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, Lithograph c. 1862-64

A seated bearded man in a dark suit rests one hand on a table draped with a patterned cloth, beside an open document and a small figurine. Behind him hang a wall map, a bust on a bracket, a globe at right, and an arched window showing a distant landscape.

Artist
Ehrgott & Forbriger Lithography Company
Date
c. 1862-64
Medium
Lithograph on paper
Source
Smithsonian (National Portrait Gallery)
Size
2570 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Smithsonian (National Portrait Gallery) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1869).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery

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