"Taking the Stump" or Stephen in Search of his Mother

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

"Taking the Stump" or Stephen in Search of his Mother

James Buchanan, Jr.|Currier & Ives|John Bell|Stephen Arnold Douglas|Abraham Lincoln|Louis Maurer|Henry Alexander Wise|John C. Breckinridge

Date
1860
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 9 1/4 in. × 16 in. (23.5 × 40.7 cm) Sheet: 13 1/2 × 17 15/16 in. (34.3 × 45.5 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
52.632.181
Credit line
Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1952

Artist information

American, 1791–1868|American, active New York, 1857–1907|American, Mill Creek, Tennessee 1796–1869 Dover, Tennessee|American, 1813–1861|American, Hardin County, Kentucky 1809–1865 Washington, D.C.|American (born Germany), Biebrich 1832–1932 New York|American, Accomac, Virginia 1806–1876 Richmond, Virginia|American, 1821–1875

Subjects and terms

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Politics
  • Satire

The Met object ID 850669. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.