View of the Box in which the Pr[esident was assassina]ted. Taken from the Dress Circle

Title inscribed on verso.
Inscribed left margin within image: Thick Honeysuckle.
Inscribed upper right: The Portrait of Washington in center of box was festooned with national flag, Blue field & stars in right of picture. Could not get sketch of scene it was [vicious?] but you can easily get it [?] New York. Correct the Perspective. Inscribed within image as indicators: Stage; Spot on which the man jumped, 11 ft 6 in; orchestra row; Common cane chairs; Parquette; Rail of Dress Circle; Yellow satin; lace curtain; Portrait if Washington; Dark Blue Flag; Stripy; Entrance door from Dress Cricle shown in ground plan.
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.913)
Reference print available in the Ray, Plate 107 (p. 182).
Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2009.