Inauguration Grand March
Medium
Classification
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Accession Number
NPG.84.81
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
MerchantBoat builderLawyerAbraham Lincoln: MaleSoldierPostmasterPresident of USIllinoisSurveyorIllinois
About this artwork
This lithograph accompanied the music for a “grand march” celebrating the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in March 1861. The portrait is based on an earlier image that covered music for “The ‘Wigwam’ Grand March,” published shortly after Lincoln’s nomination as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate in May 1860. It showed Lincoln without the beard he grew that autumn on the advice of an eleven-year-old admirer. The whiskers in this lithograph were added rather crudely to the preexisting i...