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Creator Role
printmaker
Description
The etching captures Volck's stance on the North's hypocrisy toward the treatment of black individuals. The scene takes place on Lovely Lane outside of a building where dancing and fighting takes place. The etching also depicts a well-dressed man assumed to be Henry Ward Beecher (a pastor and abolitionist) who denies help to a beggar in the streets. Instead, he hands the beggar a religious tract. Also pictured are two black men who are grave robbers. A wealthy-looking white man pays them for a corpse.
Description Source
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/content/free-negroes-north (accessed June 201, 2018).
Contributor
Justice Frank J. and Virginia Williams
Earliest
1861
Latest
1865
Approximate Creation Date
ca. 1861-1889
Measurement
8 X 9 5/8 inches
Materials and Techniques Display
etching on paper
Inscription
Recto, above image at left: 26 recto, in image on sign: Praise the Lord/Bare Bones/Colored [Mens]/HOME
Subjects
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Caricatures and cartoons
Work Type
Class
prints
Preferred Citation
[Physical ID#]: [Title], Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Mississippi State University Libraries.
Rights
Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.
ID
4842
Digital ID
FVW_04842.26
Current Location
Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States)
Repository
Mississippi State University Libraries.
Digital Publisher
Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version).
Contact Information
For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.