[Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln. Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front] (LOC)

Shepherd, Nicolas H., photographer.

[Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln. Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front]

[1846 or 1847]

1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype ; plate 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.

Notes:
 Title devised by Library staff.
Attribution to Nicolas H. Shepherd based on similarity to daguerreotype of Lincoln received as a pair with this portrait.
Gift; Mary Lincoln Isham; 1937.
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
 Lincoln, Mary Todd--1818-1882.

Format: Portrait photographs--1840-1860.
Daguerreotypes--1840-1860.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 95861318

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g06189

Call Number: DAG no. 1223

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    Quay Bell, Chantel Paradis, HeadOvMetal, garww, and 27 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. Catskills Grrl (48 months ago | reply)

    We are lucky to have this portrait of Mary. It igives us a hint as to the charms and beauty Lincoln saw in her.

  3. fw652830 (48 months ago | reply)

    Mary Todd Lincoln's all too young lifetime was in many ways, an additional tragedy of the War. A mother whose husband was taken from her by a crazed southern sympathizer and a baby boy lost early in life were double tragedies with which she could no longer bear. Rest well, Mary Todd!

  4. Catskills Grrl (48 months ago | reply)

    Mary lost three sons, Eddie, Willie, and in 1871, seven years after Mr. Lincoln, Tad (Thomas) Lincoln.

  5. Stieglitzz65 (48 months ago | reply)

    I never knew that she was so pretty.

    Is this a wedding portrait?

  6. Catskills Grrl (48 months ago | reply)

    This was taken about four years after they were married.

  7. Douglas606 (47 months ago | reply)

    The Lincoln children lives were cut short. So little was known in those days about sanitation of food and water.

  8. Zmanphoto (44 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Tintypes, ambrotypes, Wet-plate Collodion photographs, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  9. Sumi-l (41 months ago | reply)

    She loved her family. I wonder if there are in sculptures of her anywhere?

  10. writtersrightword (40 months ago | reply)

    Rest in peace.

  11. kenachi (38 months ago | reply)

    Mary Todd lincoln after her husbands assasination left the White House very unpopular with the masses. after being killed by John Wilkes Booth a klansman. She was poor and later given a pension by a later presendent to live out the rest of her life in dignity.

  12. cudau.botcanh (31 months ago | reply)

    Nice pic!!!!!!!!!

  13. whatsthatpicture (24 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I've just invited this image to the Dated Vintage Photographs group - www.flickr.com/groups/vintage-dated/

    We'd love to see this, and any other dated vintage photographs that you have, in the group. You can find out which images you have that qualify (currently 15 of them) at www.whatsthatpicture.com/flickr/valid.php?use rname=The+Li...

    Adding them to the group will mean that they will then display in the interactive timeline of Flickr's vintage images - www.whatsthatpicture.com/vintage-photo-galler ies/dated-vi...

  14. This photo was invited and added to the Dated Vintage Photographs (pre 1945) group.

  15. This photo was invited and added to the 150 Years Old (1862 or earlier) group.

  16. The Library of Congress (24 months ago | reply)

    @whatsthatpicture: Thanks for including the LOC images in your timeline! It's interesting to look at the earliest years of photography without the usual boundaries of private and public collections.

    I'll see if we can add to Flickr the oldest surviving portrait photo made in the United States -- an 1839 self-portrait by Robert Cornelius, www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004664436/

    Helena

  17. This photo was invited and added to the Early Photography in the U.S.A. group.

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