Sheet music cover including a figure of Liberty surrounded by an ornamental border containing an eagle. Liberty depicted attired in a liberty cap, holding a shield and American flag adorned with a laurel wreath, and flanked by an eagle, lyre, globe, and artist's palette., Probable publication information supplied by Reilly., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellany., Trimmed and altered., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Whateley, H., artist
Date
[1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons 1861 - 19 variant [5786.F.127a]
Cartoon evoking the Declaration of Independence to promote the emancipation from enslavement. Depicts rays of light representing God above a soaring American eagle that clutches olive and oak branches and two American flags labelled "All Men are Created Equal" and "Stand by the Declaration." Suspended from the flags is a large basket in which an African American man and a white man are seated. The African American man drops his broken shackles out of the basket as the abolitionist proclaims "Break Every Yoke; Let the Oppressed Go Free" to a large crowd of men, women, and children cheering below. Among the crowd is a white man Union soldier; a white newsboy selling the "Herald," an abolition newspaper; and a free African American man. Verses of text appear atop the rays of light and beside the basket espousing the religious, moral, and historical justifications for emancipation., Title from item., Date from copyright statement., Purchase 1968., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Dominique C. Fabronius was a respected Belgian born lithographer, watercolorist, and portraitist who worked in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York.
Creator
Fabronius, Dominique, artist
Date
1861
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1861-41 [7700.F]
