"The Nigger" in the Woodpile

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

"The Nigger" in the Woodpile

Currier & Ives|Abraham Lincoln|Louis Maurer|Horace Greeley

Date
1860
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 9 1/8 × 14 1/2 in. (23.2 × 36.8 cm) Sheet: 13 9/16 × 18 1/8 in. (34.4 × 46 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
52.632.197
Credit line
Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1952

Artist information

American, active New York, 1857–1907|American, Hardin County, Kentucky 1809–1865 Washington, D.C.|American (born Germany), Biebrich 1832–1932 New York|American, 1811–1872

Subjects and terms

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Satire
  • Politics

The Met object ID 850676. 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.