Featured in this lot is this etching on cardstock called "The Assassin" of John Wilkes Booth born in 1838 and died in 1865; Provenance: From the Tombstone Western Heritage Museum in Tombstone, Arizona. The portrait features a wonderfully and professionally crafted etching construction that shows the likeness of John Wilkes Booth in the characture of being "The Assassin." The etching reads on the front as follows: J. Wilkes Booth - L. Prang & Co. Boston - The Assassin. John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated United States president Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. A member of the prominent 19th-century Booth theatrical family from Maryland, he was a noted actor who was also a Confederate sympathizer; denouncing Lincoln, he lamented the then-recent abolition of slavery in the United States. Originally, Booth and his small group of conspirators had plotted to kidnap Lincoln to aid the Confederate cause. They later decided to murder him, as well as Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward. Although the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee, had surrendered to the Union Army four days earlier, Booth believed that the American Civil War remained unresolved because the Army of Tennessee of General Joseph E. Johnston continued fighting. Booth shot Lincoln once in the back of the head. Lincoln's death the next morning completed Booth's piece of the plot. Seward, severely wounded, recovered, whereas Vice President Johnson was never attacked. Booth fled on horseback to Southern Maryland; twelve days later, at a farm in rural Northern Virginia, he was tracked down sheltered in a barn. Booth's companion David Herold surrendered, but Booth maintained a stand-off. After the authorities set the barn ablaze, Union soldier Boston Corbett fatally shot him in the neck. Paralyzed, he died a few hours later. Of the eight conspirators later convicted, four were soon hanged. The condition of this J. Wilkes Booth etching is well preserved with a small tear in the top border of the etching with some browning to the portrait consistent with age but otherwise shows a well preserved condition. The measurements of this etching is 4 3/8" x 2 7/8". CW04