The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the cabinet: From the original picture painted at the White House in 1864

Carpenter, F. B. (Francis Bicknell), 1830-1900 | Carpenter, F. B. (Francis Bicknell), 1830-1900 | Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895 | Derby and Miller | David Center for the American Revolution

Derby and Miller, New York, 1866]

Signed in pencil: F.B. Carpenter; A.H. Ritchie. Signed on plate: F.B.C. 1864. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1866 by F.B. Carpenter in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Published by Derby and Miller, see Holzer, H. The Emancipation Proclamation: three views, 2006, p. 102. The American Antiquarian Society also has the premium plate of this image, with title, given to subscribers to The Independent, see Engrfff Carp Ritc Firsv. From left to right: Edwin M. Stanton, Salmon P. Chase, Abraham Lincoln, Gideon Welles, Caleb Smith, William H. Seward, Montgomery Blair, Edward Bates. APS holds print only.

M42 41.12

1 print : mezzotint and engraving, chine collé ; image and text 60 x 82 cm., on sheet 71.5 x 96.5 cm.