2010.88: Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882) (untitled spirit photograph with Abraham Lincoln's shadow)
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2010.88
- People
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William H. Mumler, American (Boston 1832 - 1884 Boston)
- Title
- Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882) (untitled spirit photograph with Abraham Lincoln's shadow)
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph, carte-de-visite
- Date
- 1870s
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/173769
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Technique
- Albumen silver print
- Dimensions
- mount: 10.5 x 6.4 cm (4 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso, graphite
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Special Collections, Fine Arts Library, Harvard College Library, Bequest of Evert Jansen Wendell
- Accession Year
- 2010
- Object Number
- 2010.88
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Rachel McBride Lindsey, A Communion of Shadows: Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America, The University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC, 2017), repr. as fig. 28 on p. 156
- John P. Jacob, "Spirit Portraiture: Rethinking William Mumler through Memorial Portraiture and Physical Experimentation", American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum (Spring 2025), Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 100-129, pp. 100-101, repr. p. 100
Verification Level
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