The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Taking the Stump" or Stephen in Search of his Mother

James Buchanan, Jr.|Currier & Ives|John Bell|Stephen Arnold Douglas|Abraham Lincoln|Louis Maurer|Henry Alexander Wise|John C. Breckinridge

1860

Attribution

| | | | |Probably after| | James Buchanan, Jr.|Currier & Ives|John Bell|Stephen Arnold Douglas|Abraham Lincoln|Louis Maurer|Henry Alexander Wise|John C. Breckinridge | | | | | | | American, 1791–1868|American, active New York, 1857–1907|American, Mill Creek, Tennessee 1796–1869 Dover, Tennessee|American, 1813–1861|American, Hardin County, Kentucky 1809–1865 Washington, D.C.|American (born Germany), Biebrich 1832–1932 New York|American, Accomac, Virginia 1806–1876 Richmond, Virginia|American, 1821–1875

Medium

Lithograph

Physical dimensions

Image: 9 1/4 in. × 16 in. (23.5 × 40.7 cm) Sheet: 13 1/2 × 17 15/16 in. (34.3 × 45.5 cm)

Credit line

Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1952