(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) The Lincoln Statue in Lincoln Square

Sale 2503 - Lot 96

Price Realized: $ 1,125

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) The Lincoln Statue in Lincoln Square, Washington, D.C. Lithograph, 17 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches; mat toning, moderate chipping at edges, light folds in upper left margin. New York: Currier & Ives, 1876

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A depiction of the Emancipation Memorial unveiled in Washington in 1876. It was funded entirely by the African-American community, as noted the caption: "The first contribution . . . was made the morning of the assassination of President Lincoln, by Charlotte Scott, a colored woman of Marietta, Ohio, and the cost of the monument $17,000 was paid by subscriptions of the colored people." However, the community did not have a role in the design process, which fell to the Western Sanitary Commission. The resulting statue, designed by Thomas Ball, drew criticism by Frederick Douglass, who observed that it "showed the Negro on his knee when a more manly attitude would have been indicative of freedom.' It remains controversial today, as does another copy erected in Boston. Peters, Currier & Ives 1896; none traced at auction since 1903.