President Lincoln - Writing the Freedom Proclamation

President Lincoln Writing the Proclamation of Freedom, January 1, 1863.

According to the Library of Congress:

"This print is based on David Gilmore Blythe's painting of Lincoln writing the Emancipation Proclamation. Blythe imagined the President in a cluttered study at work on the document near an open window draped with a flag. His left hand is placed on a Bible that rests on a copy of the Constitution in his lap. The scales of justice appear in the left corner, and a railsplitter's maul lies on the floor at Lincoln's feet."

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Credits

"President Lincoln Writing the Proclamation of Freedom, January 1, 1863."

Lithograph (after David G. Blythe painting) by Ehrgott and Forbriger, Cincinnati, 1864.

Image, courtesy Library of Congress.