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Creator Thomas, Henry, lithographer.
Contributor Kimmell & Forster printer.
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Henry & William Voight, publisher.
Kimmel & Forster, printer.
Title The last offer of reconciliation [graphic] : In rememberance of Prest. A. Lincolns. "The door is open for all." H. Thomas; Lithogr. by Kimmel & Forster 256 Canal Str. N.Y.
Publisher New York : Published by Henry & Wm. Voight
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1865
Date 1865
Physical Description 1 print : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 43 x 54 cm (17 x 21.25 in.)
Description Allegorical print with decorative border commemorating the reconciliation of the North and South at the end of the Civil War. Depicts Lincoln extending a hand to Confederate President Jefferson Davis and to Liberty, depicted as a white woman, who sits behind the presidents in a temple adorned with the names of the Union states. Secretary of State William H. Seward, Secretary of War Gideon Welles, two Union Officers, General Sherman, and General Grant on horseback accompany Lincoln in the prosperous North. Grant holds a ribbon containing the names of the Confederate states, and Sherman attaches it to the Temple of Liberty. In the burning, war-torn South where ghostlike figures roam, Davis is accompanied by General Lee, a man resembling Henry Wilkes Boothe, an enslaved African American man who holds his shackled arms above his head, and a solemn young man holding his stove pipe hat. The decorative border contains healthy vines and branches on the northern side, dead vines on the side of the "South," and vignettes of an enslaved African American man being whipped by a white man enslaver, hand-to-hand combat, white men working the field, and a white man fishing.
Is referenced by Reilly, 1865-6
Notes Title from item.
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year of 1865 by Henry & Wm. Voight in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New York.
Text below title: Dedicated to the Memory of our most lamented late President Abraham Lincoln.
One of three companionate allegorical lithographs about the Civil War produced by Kimmel & Forster.
Originally from a McAllister scrapbook of Lincoln materials. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Portraits.
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 -- Portraits.
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 -- Portraits.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Portraits.
Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 -- Portraits.
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 -- Portraits.
Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878 -- Portraits.
African American men.
Liberty.
Shackles.
Enslaved persons -- Southern States.
War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Whipping -- Southern States.
Enslaved men -- Southern States.
Enslavers -- Southern States.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Peace.
Genre Allegorical prints -- 1860-1870.
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1860-1870.
Political cartoons -- 1860-1870.
Printer Henry & William Voight, publisher.
Kimmel & Forster, printer.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political cartoons-1865-6R [5792.F]
Accession number 5792.F