Mathew Brady's Studio
1864
Original Brady Photograph Maquette "President and Cabinet."

Maquette
The 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop
Mathew Brady and Abraham Lincoln. This splendid original Mathew Brady work of art celebrates Lincoln and his Team of Rivals at the height of the Civil War.
 
Mathew Brady and his gallery created this superb maquette using the best possible examples of its finest portraits of Lincoln and his cabinet. Brady then photographed the piece and published it in much-reduced size as a carte de visite group portrait for sale to the public. The resulting carte de visite appears in Ostendorf's Lincoln's Photographs on p. 275.
 
The nine Mathew Brady portraits making up this maquette are:
 
Abraham Lincoln, President
 
Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President
 
William Seward, Secretary of State
 
Edward Bates, Attorney General
 
Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War
 
Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General
 
Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy
 
William Pitt Fessenden, Secretary of the Treasury
 
John P. Usher, Secretary of the Interior
 
The famous Lincoln portrait at the top is Ostendorf O-84, made by Brady in Washington on Friday January 8, 1864. The maquette was made between July and November 1864. Fessenden succeeded Salmon P. Chase as Treasury Secretary on July 5, 1864, and Edwin Bates resigned as Attorney General in November 1864.
 
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