Let us have peace, U.S. Grant – Antique Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Let us have peace, U.S. Grant. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Let us have peace, U.S. Grant
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The title of this 1868 lithograph quotes Ulysses S. Grant's short letter accepting the Republican presidential nomination that year, in which he wrote, "Let us have peace." The phrase became the core of his campaign, which presented the former Union general as the man who could heal a nation still scarred by the Civil War and the fight over Reconstruction. H. Muhr's image, drawn and printed as a lithograph with letterpress text, shows how campaign art of the period relied on one memorable line and a recognizable likeness to carry a candidate's message. Grant won the election that November and took office in 1869.
| Created / published | c1868. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, with letterpress. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Lithograph after drawing. Copyright by H. Muhr. |
| Subjects | Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson),--1822-1885. Peace--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,185 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-162030 |
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