Edward Spangler, member of the Lincoln assassination plot Product:Postcard Racehorses in a Landscape

Racehorses in a Landscape

Pen and ink and watercolour with some gum and scraping on paper

the second of Blake's Continental Prophecies where

The York and Lancaster Towers date from this time

'Miseries of London'

Edward Spangler, member of the Lincoln assassination plot Product:Postcard Racehorses in a LandscapeEdward Spangler, member of the Lincoln assassination plot, 1865 (1955). Spangler (1825 1875) worked at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC at the time when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated there by John Wilkes Booth. Spangler was involved in preparing the box that Lincoln used on the night of his death, and had been overheard speaking negatively of the president. He was arrested and tried for having been an accomplice of Booth's and was sentenced to six