The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Lincoln
Francis Bicknell Carpenter · 1864
Why it's great
President Lincoln reads the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet in July 1862. Francis Bicknell Carpenter painted this meeting in 1864, and it hung in the US Capitol.
🏛️ Part of history
Slavery & the Fight for Freedom (1780–1865) — President Lincoln reads the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet in July 1862.
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Francis Bicknell Carpenter was an American painter born in Homer, New York, in 1830. He lived for six months at the White House in 1864 to paint Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet, and he died in New York City in 1900.
