| Creator |
Currier & Ives. |
| Title |
Abraham's dream! : "Coming events cast their shadows before." [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1864 |
| Date |
1864 |
| Physical Description |
1 print : lithograph ; sheet 35 x 46 cm (13.5 x 18 in.) |
| Description |
Cartoon lampooning Lincoln's belief in prophetic dreams and fear of losing the presidential election of 1864. Above the dreaming,
sleeping body of Lincoln, Democratic candidate George McClellan arrives at the White House. He witnesses Liberty, depicted
as a white woman, hurling the decapitated head of an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature, at a fleeing Lincoln
as he states, "This don't remind me of any joke!!" Lincoln is attired in a plaid Scotsman's cap and cape, an allusion to his
disguise in response to an assassination threat before his first inauguration, and carries an inscribed scroll, "To whom it
may concern," a reference to his written edict that he would only receive, not seek, offers of peace from the Confederacy.
|
| Is referenced by |
Weitenkampf, p. 146 |
|
Reilly, 1864-41 |
|
Conningham, Currier & Ives Prints: An Illustrated Check List, 29 |
| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress, A.D. 1864, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of
the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
|
|
Probably drawn by Louis Maurer. |
|
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 |
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Decapitations. |
|
Dreaming. |
|
Liberty. |
|
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1864. |
|
Racism in popular culture. |
| Geographic subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. |
| Genre |
Lithographs -- 1860-1870. |
|
Political cartoons -- 1860-1870. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political Cartoons - 1864-41 [6374.F] |
| Accession number |
6374.F |
