The Union Christmas Dinner [political cartoon of plea for peace, showing Pres. Lincoln inviting Confederate states to join Northern states at peace table] – Antique Wall Art
![The Union Christmas Dinner [political cartoon of plea for peace, showing Pres. Lincoln inviting Confederate states to join Northern states at peace table], 1864 — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b2/b26dca122b2a-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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This rare antique engraving captures The Union Christmas Dinner [political cartoon of plea for peace, showing Pres. Lincoln inviting Confederate states to join Northern states at peace table] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Union Christmas Dinner [political cartoon of plea for peace, showing Pres. Lincoln inviting Confederate states to join Northern states at peace table]
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Here Abraham Lincoln sits at a holiday table set for the Union, inviting the seceded Confederate states to pull up a chair and end the war. The wood engraving ran in Harper's Weekly on December 31, 1864, about a week after Christmas, when the war's outcome was becoming clearer after Lincoln's reelection that November and Sherman's capture of Savannah. Its message was typical of wartime holiday imagery, which often used the domestic ideal of a family feast to argue for reconciliation rather than further bloodshed.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 8, (1864 Dec. 31), p. 840-841. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cartoons; C.W.; Peace; Pres.; Holidays. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,143 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155556 |
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