"The First Vote" of African Americans in Virginia in the November 16, 1867, issue of Harper's Weekly (Original, hand colored, Framed Lithograph)

Alfred Rudolph Waud

Verlag: Harper's Weekly, 1867

Beschreibung

[Black Suffrage : The Fifteenth Amendment] Hand colored lithograph. In wooden frame, mounted, under glass. Framed dimensions: 17 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches. Print dimensions: 16 in x 11.25 in. This 1867 issue of Harper's Weekly shows black men lining up to cast their ballots. An older black man with white hair casts his first vote. Behind him stand a well to do black businessman, a soldier in uniform, and other black men. Congress had recently approved measures allowing African Americans the right to vote - a right later ratified in the 15th Amendment.  In 1867, 105,832 freedmen registered to vote in Virginia, and 93,145 voted in the 1867 election. Waud, a noted artist for Harper's during the Civil War, captured this historic moment in this print. Ref: The First Vote drawn by A.R. Waud. Engraving published in Harper's Weekly, vol. 11, no. 568 (16 November 1867), Special Collections, Library of Virginia. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2301110024

Bibliografische Details

Titel: "The First Vote" of African Americans in ...

Verlag: Harper's Weekly

Erscheinungsdatum: 1867

Einband: Art, Prints & Posters

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: First Edition.