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Excerpt from Artists of Abraham Lincoln Portraits: David Gilmour Blythe I have been cudgeling my brains over the lithograph you sent of Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation. It certainly can be interpreted in several different ways. However, I interpret it as an attempt to show the various forces being brought to bear on the President, and the difficulty of his decision. I believe the artist has attempted to include a great deal of symbolism such as in the key, scales, flag at the window and various impedimenta. If it has a slant, I would think it a mildly critical one. But to me the artist has some recognition of the difficulty Lincoln had in composing the proclamation. Many of the items portrayed may well have entered Lincoln's thoughts. The weight of the decision is present. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.