Vinnie Ream, Two Cartes de Visitie

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Two cartes de visite, one is of Vinnie Ream a noted Lincoln sculptor and the other is of the statue she created of Abraham Lincoln. 

Within the turbulent world of post-Civil War America, Sarah Fisher Ames and Vinnie Ream (Hoxie) were the first sculptors to produce official images of the martyred president for the United State Capitol. Ames sculpted a marble Bust of Lincoln for the Senate in 1866; Ream’s standing figure of Lincoln, commissioned in 1866, was unveiled in the Capitol Rotunda in 1871. At stake was not only the memory of the beloved president, but also the visualization of the progressive principles that undergirded this newly united nation.

Both with minor soiling, rounded corners; else very good.

Ream, Vinnie. Two cartes de visite. Vinnie Ream bust photograph, and the Abraham Lincoln statue she created. 4 1/2″ x 3 1/2″ (approx).