Carnegie Institute Museum of Art 4400 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15213 Accession Number: 58.56.3
Date:
1861
Notes:
Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992.
Catalogue of Painting Collection, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1973, pg. 19.
Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 1990.
Image on file.
Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992, pg. 95.
(Lower left:) Blythe signed
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Summary:
This scene depicts the artist's view of the causes of the Civil War: at center Liberty, who is dressed in an American flag, is wounded and seated on the ground; on her left an abolitionist holds up a book with the title, "Higher Law"; he stands with a black servant who wears an apron; posted on the wall at left several posters with names of famous abolitionists; at right, a Southerner holds a pair of slave's shackles with the label, "Our Rights"; he stands with his black slave.
