12 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (visible) platinum print laid to ragboard, housed in frame, 16 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (rich tonality, unexamined outside frame, accompanied by conservation report). Catalogued by Lincoln collector Lloyd Ostendorf as sitting O-26.

This is one of four known portraits of Lincoln taken by Hesler on 3 June 1860 at the old Capitol Building in Springfield, IL, two weeks after Lincoln's nomination for President by the Republican National Convention in Chicago. The original plates were retained by Ayres when he bought and sold Hesler's gallery immediately after the Civil War. In 1881, Ayres produced prints from the plates and also created a duplicate set of glass negatives [Ostendorf, 49].

Provenance: Erle H. Reid, Attorney and Chairman of the Wyoming State Republican Party (photocopied documentation).