President Lincoln, writing the Proclamation of Freedom, lithographic print on wove paper, Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co., after David Gilmour Blythe, 1863.
This imaginative rendering of Abraham Lincoln composing the Emancipation Proclamation depicts the president surrounded by symbolic references to American political and intellectual history. On 1 January 1863, in the midst of the American Civil War, the proclamation would be issued, declaring all persons held as slaves in the secessionist states to be free.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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