Breaking that "Backbone"
Artwork Details
- Title: Breaking that "Backbone"
- Artist: After Benjamin Henry Day Jr. (American, New York 1838–1916 Summit, New Jersey)
- Publisher: Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857–1907)
- Sitter: Abraham Lincoln (American, Hardin County, Kentucky 1809–1865 Washington, D.C.)
- Sitter: Jefferson Davis (American, Fairview, Kentucky 1808–1889 New Orleans, Louisiana)
- Sitter: General George B. McClellan (American, Phildadelphia, Pennsylvania 1826-1885 Orange, New Jersey)
- Sitter: Henry Wager Halleck (American, 1815–1872)
- Sitter: Edwin McMasters Stanton (American, 1814–1869)
- Date: 1862–63
- Medium: Lithograph
- Dimensions: Image: 9 1/16 × 13 1/8 in. (23 × 33.3 cm)
Sheet: 13 7/16 × 18 3/16 in. (34.2 × 46.2 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1952
- Object Number: 52.632.193
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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