Title: Borne By Loving Hands Description: A painting by Carl Bersch (1834-1914) titled Borne by Loving Hands which depicts Abraham Lincoln (February 25, 1809-April 15, 1865), sixteenth President of the U.S. (1861-1865), being carried to the boarding house of William Petersen after being shot by American stage actor John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838-April 26, 1865) in Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865; Lincoln was taken to the house across the street from the theater because he could not be moved too far; he died there the next day; Bersch, a commercial artist, was one of the residents of the Petersen boarding house and was one of those who witnessed the president's death; Category: Political Figures Topic: U.S. Presidents Subject: Abraham Lincoln Keywords: actors, artists, assassinations, boarding houses, commercial artists, Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., house where Abraham Lincoln died, presidents of the U.S., U.S. Presidents, Washington, D.C. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2400 x 2335 (5.60 MPixels) (1.03) Print Size: 20.3 x 19.8 cm; 8.0 x 7.8 inches File Size: 16.07 MB (16,845,536 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000530589 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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