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The end of the Rebellion in the United States, 1865

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Year:
1866
Contributor:
Kimmel, Christopher, 1830-1872 (artist)
Kimmel & Forster (publisher)
Genre:
lithographs
Subject:
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
African Americans in art
African American soldiers
Enslaved persons
Symbolism in art
Local ID:
UP 1865 gf-3
Extent:
1 lithograph; 71.8 x 54.7 cm.

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Abstract:
Lithograph after Kimmel, published by him and Thomas Forster. 'The artist depicts in symbolic terms the downfall of the Confederacy. Columbia, crowned with stars, and Liberty, wearing a Phrygian cap and holding an American flag, stand on a pedestal in the center. On the pedestal are carved the likenesses of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. In front of the pedestal Justice, armed with sword and scales, leads a charge of Union troops toward the right. Immediately behind Justice stands President Andrew Johnson, and behind him Union generals Butler, Grant, and Sherman are visible. A black soldier stands in the foreground and a freed slave kneels before Liberty's pedestal. An eagle bearing thunderbolts flies overhead, also toward the right, where the vanquished Confederates are gathered. Jefferson Davis (holding a sack of money), Robert E. Lee (offering his sword in surrender), and John Wilkes Booth (with a pistol and knife) are prominent among them. In the distance are a leaning palmetto tree with a dead serpent hanging limp from it and (beyond) Fort Sumter flying an American flag' -- Library of Congress
Notes:
Large oblong folio, matted giant folio; margins soiled.
N.Y., Argosy, 1953.

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Kimmel, Christopher, "The end of the Rebellion in the United States, 1865" (1866). Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:237672/

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