154 Harriet Goodhue Hosmer

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Description: Design for the Freedmen's Monument to Abraham Lincoln

TitleDesign for the Freedmen's Monument to Abraham Lincoln

Creator nameHosmer, Harriet Goodhue

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1868

Creation date (description)1 January 1868

Object typePrint

MaterialsWood engraving

LocationPublished as an illustration in "Art-Journal", n.s. 7 (1 January 1868): 8. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

SubjectsEmancipation ProclamationArtists' preparatory studiesMonuments in artWomen sculptorsSculpture, American--19th century

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Chapter 4: Freedom’s Memorial

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Description: Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century...

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (New Edition)

ON THE NATIONAL STAGE, in the center of political power, a monument to “freedom” finally emerged. This was the Freedmen’s Memorial to Abraham Lincoln, a project begun immediately after Lincoln’s death and completed finally in 1876—neatly spanning the whole era of Reconstruction. Financed entirely by contributions from free...

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Kirk Savage

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.89-128

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Chapter subject tags:Sculpture, American--19th centuryLincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865Slaves--Emancipation--United States--19th centuryNational monuments--United StatesDouglass, Frederick, 1818-1895Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908Soldiers, BlackMills, Clark, 1810-1883

3. Uncle Tom or the Freed Slave, 1852–1876

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Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to...

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1: Slaves and Liberators

There are many and obvious similarities between European and American, especially British and North American, literary and visual images of blacks. Ever since the eighteenth century there had been a transatlantic interchange of writings about slavery ...

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Hugh Honour

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.167-222

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Chapter subject tags:United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African AmericansUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865SlaveryLiterature in artSlaves--Emancipation--United StatesAllegoriesFugitive slavesAfrican Americans--Social life and customsPropaganda in artUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Art and the war

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