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Lincoln Reading the Emancipation Proclamation to his Cabinet

(American, 1828–1887)
about 1862–63
Medium/TechniqueGrisaille oil on cardboard monochrome
DimensionsSheet: 41.0 x 55.7 cm (16 1/8 x 21 15/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number57.326
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA April 11, 1957
Washington Allston
Alonzo Chappel
about 1862
Alonzo Chappel
Joseph-Marie Vien with Palette
Joseph Siffred Duplessis
Necklace
Marianne Hunter
1991
Autumn at Crouzol
Victor Léon Jean Pierre Charreton
Oliver Herford
1883–1935
Memorial Wreath
Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840
Albert Sterner
1890
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
1810–72
Richard Caton Woodville II
1895
Joseph Frank Currier
1863–1909