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Abraham Lincoln Writing the Emancipation Proclamation, (painting). Artist:  Blythe, David Gilmour, 1815-1865, painter. Title:  Abraham Lincoln Writing the Emancipation Proclamation, (painting). Dates:  1863. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  21 3/4 x 27 in. (55.2 x 68.6 cm) Inscription:  (Lower left:) Blythe signed Description:  Scene with Abraham Lincoln, who is seated in the center of a room, surrounded by maps, newspapers, papers, and books. Subject:  Cartoon -- Political History -- United States -- Civil War History -- United States -- Emancipation Proclamation Portrait male -- Lincoln, Abraham -- Full length Occupation -- Political -- President Object -- Written Matter -- Map Architecture interior Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 Accession Number: 58.56.2 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Batchelor, Charles W., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by 1879. Lawrence, Captain, Port Washington, New York before 1950. Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York 1950. Newhouse Gallery, New York, New York 1950. Anonymous collection, after 1950. Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York by 1958. Purchased 1958. References:  Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992. Catalogue of Painting Collection, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1973, pg. 20. Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 1990. Illustration:  Image on file. Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992, pg. 99. Catalogue of Painting Collection, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1973, pl. 31. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 46470128   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 46470128 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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