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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Death of Robert E. Lee
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Death of Robert E. Lee

Artist Unknown
Publisher Currier & Ives (American, 1834 - 1907)
CultureAmerican
Date1870
MediumLithograph, paper
DimensionsOverall, Image: 7 x 12 1/4 in. (17.8 x 31.1 cm)
Overall: 10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm)
InscribedTitle and "Published by Currier and Ives, 152 Nassau St., New York, Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1870 by Currier and Ives in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington".
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Louis I. Jaffe
Object number50.45.3
Not on view
DescriptionLithograph of a scene showing people around the deathbed of Gen. Robert E. Lee.