The Spirit of the Union

1860

Currier and Ives Publishers, Artist Currier and Ives Publishers, Publisher

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About the Artwork

Title The Spirit of the Union

Artwork Date 1860

Makers Currier and Ives Publishers (Artist) American, 1834-1907 Currier and Ives Publishers (Publisher) American, 1834-1907

Medium Lithograph printed in black ink, colored by hand on wove paper

Dimensions Image: 11 1/4 × 8 1/2 inches (28.6 × 21.6 cm) Sheet: 15 × 12 inches (38.1 × 30.5 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Coleman Mopper

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F1984.104

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Inscriptions Inscribed, on stone, lower left: PUB.[]D OVER B] BY CURRIER & IVES, Inscribed, lower center: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860 by E. Dechoux, in the Clerk's Office, of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern Dist of N.Y. Inscribed, lower right: 152 NASSAU ST. N.Y. | Inscribed, center bottom margin: THE SPIRIT OF THE UNION. | Lo | on high the glorious form, | OF WASHINGTON lights all the gloom. | And words of warning seem to come; | From out the portal of his tomb; | [beginning new stanza to right] Americans your fathers shed, | Their blood to rear the UNIONS fame, | Then let your blood as free be given, | The bond of UNION to maintain.

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1984-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Currier and Ives Publishers, The Spirit of the Union, 1860, lithograph printed in black ink, colored by hand on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Coleman Mopper, F1984.104.