Details
Creator Tholey (Firm), artist.
Contributor Haehnlen, Jacob, 1824-, printer.
Title Funeral Car, used at the obesequies of President Lincoln, in Philadelphia, April 22nd, 1865, [graphic] : Designed and built by E.S. Earley, Undertaker, south east corner of Tenth and Green Streets, Philadelphia / Tholey.
Publisher Philadelphia : Printed by J. Haehnlen
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1865
Date [1865]
Physical Description 1 print : hand-colored lithograph, tinted with one stone ; sheet 60 x 78 cm (23.5 x 30.5 in.)
Description Scene depicting the procession of the catafalque transporting the flower covered casket with President Lincoln to Independence Hall. Funeral officials, attired in black suits and top hats, attend the open air funeral car with canopy, draped in black cloth, and drawn by eight horses. Mourners line the city street including an African American man and woman.
Is referenced by Wainwright, 146
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 289
Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: Portrait of an American city (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia in cooperation with Camino Books, 1990), p. 221.
Lib. Company. Annual report, 1971, p. 43.
Purchase 1970.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Biographical / historical note Charles Tholey, Augustus Tholey, and their father, probably named Michael, worked as lithographers, engravers, and pastel portraitists in Philadelphia in the mid 19th century.
Subject Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Death and burial.
Earley, Edward S.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Catafalques -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Funeral processions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Funeral rites & ceremonies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Mourning clothing & dress.
Spectators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- Hand-colored -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W146 [7929.F]
Accession number 7929.F