Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, (painting).

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Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, (painting).

Aderente, Vincent, 1880-1941, painter.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, (painting).

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Approx. 8 ft. x 35 ft.

(Lower center, below foot of Native American:) Vincent Aderente / 19 (copyright symbol) 40 signed

Mural depicting Lincoln delivering a speech atop a wooden platform with the following figures identified in the crowd: Ann Rutledge to whom Lincoln was once engaged; the Armstrongs, neighbors who befriended him in early life --later he defended their son who was accused of murder, and won the acquittal; Stuart, his law partner from Springfield, Illinois; General Robert E. Lee, Commander of the Confederate Army, and General Ulysses S. Grant, Commander of the Union Army, at the close of the Civil War; Mary Todd, Lincoln's wife, and William, one of their sons; and members of Lincoln's cabinet --Usher, Stanton, Seward, and Rates. Also present is a kneeling figure representing Lincoln's power to befriend everyone. Pictured in the background are the log cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809, the U.S. Capitol, and the Lincoln Memorial. Flanking the scene are panels containing the text of the Gettysburg Address delivered at the National Soldiers Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

History -- United States

Portrait male -- Lincoln, Abraham -- Full length

Federal Lincoln Savings Bank, Broadway & Union, Brooklyn, New York

Formerly in the collection of Lincoln Savings Bank, Broadway & Union, Brooklyn, New York until 1983.

The artist included a portrait of his son-in-law with his granddaughter Glenn seated on his shoulder. In 1983, the bank name was changed to Federal Lincoln Savings Bank, FSB. In 2010, the bank was sold, and the new owners removed the mural and placed it in storage at the bank.

King, Glenn, 2008, 2010.

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