- GLC#
- GLC03531
- Type
- Images
- Date
- 1864
- Author/Creator
- Serz, John, 1808-1881
- Title
- Abraham Lincoln President of the United States signing the Emancipation Proclamation
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 engraving Height: 54.3 cm, Width: 42.2 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Black and white engraving showing Lincoln seated at a table with the Holy Bible, facing forward with a handwritten copy of the Emancipation Proclamation in his left hand. Engraved by John Serz after a painting by W. E. Winner. Published by John Dainty in Philadelphia. Marked as a "Proof".
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