Very attractive 10.25 x 13.5 silver gelatin print of President Abraham Lincoln reproduced by Moses P. Rice from an original wet plate negative by Alexander Gardner, an acclaimed Civil War photographer and one-time protege of Mathew Brady. The bust-length portrait, taken by Gardner in mid-November 1864, depicts the sitting president in spectacular detail, and is affixed to its original 10.75 x 14.25 presentation sheet with pencil caption to lower border: "From unretouched negative, By Moses P. Rice, Wash. D.C.,” and signed in the opposite corner, “M. P. Rice, 1864.” In fine condition, with faint silvering to Lincoln's dark jacket. Moses P. Rice copyrighted the original Gardner negative of Lincoln, known as the 'Gettysburg' portrait, on October 29, 1891.
