Title:
In memoriam [tribute to Abraham Lincoln]
Creator/Contributor:
Nahl, Charles Christian (1818-1878), German, lithographer (lithographer)
Nagel, Louis (active ca. 1844-ca. 1873), German, printer (printer)
Date:
[not before 1865]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0498--D
Format:
print on paper: lithograph
64.2 x 50.5 cm.
Content/Description:
Allegorical image in tribute to President Lincoln. Minerva with sword leans over stele bearing profile portrait of President
and inscription surmounted by owls and urn; slain dragon lies before rolled scroll of Emancipation Act and discarded shackle.
Slave stands besides monument; silent battleground in distance.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): C. Nahl, lith.; (LC, above title): Published with Puck, the Pacific Pictorial, copyright
secured; (LR): L. Nagel, print.
Subjects:
Afro-Americans;
Animals;
Arms & armaments;
Events;
Funerary facilities;
Women
Genre/Format:
Allegories;
Lithographs;
Portraits