Description

This hand-colored lithograph features the text of President Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation of Emancipation and depicts Lincoln as the central figure in the abolitionist cause. At the top of the print is an eagle with the word "Liberty" printed above its head. Under the eagle's claws is a portrait of George Washington with the portraits of several other statesmen and women related to the founding and independence of the United States. Beneath the shield containing the text are portraits of abolitionists with Lincoln in the center. Vignettes by lithographer Max Rosenthal (1833-1919) adorn each side of the print, depicting the evils of slavery and the blessings of liberty. This print is no. 47 inthe survey by Charles Eberstadt, "Lincoln's Emancipation proclamation," in The new colophon III, p. 354. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum