Blow for blow – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Blow for blow, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Blow for blow" is a color lithograph issued as a numbered collecting card, part of a series titled "The Slave in 1863" and published in Philadelphia that year. Its catalog subjects are slave rebellions and beating, themes the series took up at a time when the Civil War had made slavery's future the central question in the country. The card carries a copyright notice in the name of William A. Stephens, and its date places it in the same year President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Viewers should keep the period's racial assumptions in mind, since many wartime lithographs of this kind used caricature to comment on enslaved and free Black Americans.
| Created / published | c1863. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Collecting cards 1860-1870.Lithographs Color 1860-1870. |
| Notes | No. 6, no. 62. Copyright by William A. Stephens. From: Album varieties no. 3; The slave in 1863. Philadelphia, 1863. |
| Subjects | Slave rebellions--United States--1860-1870. Beating--United States--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,144 × 1,459 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216624 |
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