Abraham's dream!--Coming events cast their shadows before"" – Historic Reproduction
![Abraham's dream!--Coming events cast their shadows before"", [New York] : Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St. N.Y., c1864. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9c/9c683f5c507d-L.webp)
(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 Abraham's dream!--Coming events cast their shadows before"", an antique lithograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Abraham's dream!--Coming events cast their shadows before""
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Abraham's dream!" plays on the President's first name and the Biblical patriarch, and its subtitle borrows a line from Thomas Campbell's poem "Lochiel's Warning," where "coming events cast their shadows before" suggests that the future can be sensed in advance. Published by Currier & Ives on Nassau Street in New York around 1864, the lithograph belongs to the flood of cartoons produced during Abraham Lincoln's reelection campaign, when the outcome of the Civil War and the election was still uncertain. Catalogers attribute the drawing to Louis Maurer, who worked extensively for the firm.
| Created / published | [New York] : Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St. N.Y., c1864. |
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| Medium | 1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 28 x 36 cm. |
| Genre | D.C. |
| Notes | Title from item. Probably drawn by Louis Maurer. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 34 Wilson, pp. 296-97 Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1864-41. Exhibited: With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library of Congress |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,318 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174043 |
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