Lincoln and the Emancipated Slave / Randolph Rogers
About this Item
Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1885.3
- Title
- Lincoln and the Emancipated Slave
- Artist
- Randolph Rogers
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1825 - 1892
- Medium and Support
- painted plaster
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1866
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Randolph Rogers
- Dimensions
- 54 cm x 36 cm x 20 cm (21 1/4 in. x 14 3/16 in. x 7 7/8 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Sculpture
- Physical Description
- Plaster sculpture of a standing male figure, his right hand resting upon a small column and his left hand holding the arm of a crouching African American female figure.
- Subject Matter
- At the end of the Civil War (1861–65) there was an effort to promote an American Renaissance and to beautify cities with civic monuments and public sculpture. Sculptors, including Randolph Rogers, were commissioned to produce memorials that addressed themes of war and slavery and to commemorate military heroes, from the common soldier to President Abraham Lincoln himself.
- This plaster cast was a maquette for a Civil War monument* and depicts Abraham Lincoln as the “Great Emancipator” freeing a slave, establishing a narrative of theoretical peace and unity.
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- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1347 x 963
- File Size
- 173 KB
- Record
- 1885.3
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1885.3/1885.3.jpg
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/musart:1885.3
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"Lincoln and the Emancipated Slave; Randolph Rogers." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1885.3/1885.3.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2025.
