Note
"Writing the Emancipation Proclamation" is a sketch of [Mr. Lincoln] writing with the U.S Constitution under his foot. It was created by the German born artist John Adalbert Volck who resided in Baltimore, MD during the American Civil War. Adalbert J. Volck went under the pseudynom of V. Blada. Volck's satirical sketches depict scenes related to the American Civil war. This sketch is part of a set of 29 from a book titled "Sketches from the Civil War in North America, 1861, ’62, ’63" by V. Blada.