Excerpt from Catalogue of a Collection of Engraved and Other Portraits of Lincoln: Exhibited at the Grolier Club, New York Saturday, April 8th, to Saturday, April 22d, 1899
Mr. Lincoln came to the forefront comparatively so late in life, when the art of engraving had fallen into disuse, that but little variety will be found in the types of the portraits shown, and but few of them possess any artistic merit. Yet their value as human documents is unmistakable, and this will increase as time rolls on; for Abraham Lincoln is the typical American in history, and consequently he is the greatest of Americans. Washington, who made Lincoln possible, was historically a Briton, so that when we place the saviour of his country upon the lofty pedestal we do, we in no wise disparage or detract from the eminence of him who was "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen," - the father of his country.
Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin, now Larue county, Kentucky, near Nolin creek, about a couple of miles from Hodgensville, the present county seat of Larue county, on the 12th day of February, 1809. His parents were poor and illiterate, and the education he received was meagre, his early life being one of continued hardships. It was not long, however, before Lincoln showed that he was sui generis. At the age of twenty-four he secured the office of country postmaster, and the next year entered the Illinois legislature, where he sat through four sessions.
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