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Engraving, 15.5 x 20.5 in. (sight), framed, 22.25 x 27.25 in. Abraham Lincoln. New York, NY: Engraved by Henry Gugler, n.d., ca 1869. Not examined outside frame, so publication information is not visible, but this is believed to have been engraved by Henry Gugler, after a painting by John H. Littlefield, and printed by William Pate & Company of New York. This is a powerful image of Lincoln carried out by a master engraver who eventually opened his own printing business; first in New Jersey and later in Milwaukee. From Find A Grave: "Johann Heinrich 'Henry' Gugler was born September 27th 1816 in Untertuerkheim, Wuerttemberg, Germany. At the age of fifteen he began an apprenticeship in the arts, specializing in metal engraving; he would become one of the top metal engravers in Germany. Henry Gugler immigrated to the United States in 1853 with his wife and six-year-old son Julius at the invitation of a fellow engraver who had earlier settled in this country. Gugler had studied art and had twenty-two years experience in metal engraving in Germany where he prepared book illustrations, zoological studies and city views. He found work with a New York firm specializing in bank note engraving. By the early 1860s he began working at the National Note Bureau, later the Federal agency known as the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C. In 1863, the National Note Bureau of Engraving and Printing hired Henry as one of their first vignette engravers. While working for them he engraved the "The Pioneer" which appeared on the $5 and $20 United States bills. Henry Gugler's most famous engravings was his life size steel engraving of President Abraham Lincoln. This would be his most important work and was completed in 1869 after two years of work. " Condition: Not examined outside frame but excellent example of a striking engraved portrait.