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Handbill of the Play at the Night of Lincoln's Assassination
Handbill of the Play at the Night of Lincoln's Assassination

Handbill of the Play at the Night of Lincoln's Assassination

Artist/Maker (American, active 1880–1904)
Date1893
MediumOil on oak panel
DimensionsOverall: 20 5/8 × 14 in. (52.4 × 35.6 cm)
Frame: 32 3/8 × 25 3/4 × 3 in. (82.2 × 65.4 × 7.6 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Charles F. and Abigail L. Olney
Object number1904.593
Status
Not on view
More Information
This still life is executed in the trompe l’oeil painting style popular at the end the 19th century, whose intent was to “trick the eye” through detailed realism. The arrangement depicts the handbill of the play presented at Ford’s Theatre on the night of President Lincoln’s assassination, a ten-dollar bill, a newspaper clipping, and a check for seven-hundred dollars.
Exhibition History
Still Life Paintings from the 17th to the 19th Century
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 15, 1945 - April 15, 1945 )
Illusionism and Trompe l'Oeil
  • California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (May 3, 1949 - June 26, 1949 )
American Paintings and Sculpture
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 30, 1985 - August 18, 1985 )
American Landscapes and Tromp L'Oeil from the Permanent Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (December 5, 1986 - February 1, 1987 )
Old Money: American Trompe l'Oeil Images of Currency
  • Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York (November 9, 1988 - December 10, 1988 )
Focus on the Permanent Collection: 19th and 20th Century American Still Lifes
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (July 1, 1994 - August 7, 1994 )
Charles F. Olney and the Collecting of Curiosities
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (July 8, 1996 - September 25, 1996 )
Wildfire Test Pit
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 30, 2016 - June 12, 2016 )
Collections
  • Americas
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