This satirical sketch by Adalbert Volck casts President
Lincoln in league with the devil as he drafts the Emancipation
Proclamation. The pictures on the wall purport to show
Lincoln in sympathy with radical abolitionist John Brown
and with the bloody slave revolt in Santo Domingo at the
turn of the nineteenth century.
Adalbert John Volck (1828–1912)
Transfer lithograph, 1864
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
