(Print) John Sartain, Abraham Lincoln, The Martyr Victorious

Description

Sartain’s Abraham Lincoln, The Martyr Victorious, apotheosis depicts Washington receiving Lincoln into heaven.

Being a “combination of the religious with the patriotic (or what one describes as) civil religion” (Holzer The Lincoln Image p.197).  “In the classical art of antiquity, apotheosis depicted the exaltation of a mortal to the company of the gods.”  Washington greets Lincoln in the clouds, while angels play harps and place a laurel wreath onto Lincoln’s head. 

Excellent; the colors are deep and evocative, with the figures rising out of the dark clouds below, up to the brightness of heaven. 

Quite Dramatic! 

Sartain, John.  ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE MARTYR. / VICTORIOUS.  NY:  W. H. Hermans, Penn Yan, Yates County, (1865).  Colored Lithograph; 15” x 10-3/4” (sight); framed to 23” x 29”. 

*There is some reflection in the glass. It is not a flaw in the print.