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Lincoln Reading the Emancipation Proclamation to his Cabinet
Alonzo Chappel (American, 1828–1887)
about 1862–63
Medium/Technique
Grisaille oil on cardboard monochrome
Dimensions
Sheet: 41.0 x 55.7 cm (16 1/8 x 21 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number57.326
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik (Civil War) 0927
DescriptionLincoln standing beside table in front of window facing five men at left: Montgomery Blair, Caleb B. Smith and Gideon Welles seated; Edwin M. Stanton and Edward Bates standing. Behind the President at right standing: W. H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase. Lincoln first read a draft for the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet on July 17, 1862, and again on Sept. 22, 1862. The formal Proclamation was issued on Jan. 1, 1863.
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA April 11, 1957