Photographic reproduction of an allegorical view including Abraham Lincoln, a pavilion, and marching soldiers

[Abraham Lincoln]. Allen & Rowell (Photographers); Philippoteaux, Paul (Artist). [Photographic reproduction of an allegorical view including Abraham Lincoln, a pavilion, and marching soldiers] Painting by Paul Philipoteaux; Allen & Rowell, photographers, 25 Winter Street, Boston. Albumen photograph on card mount, 5 x 8 inches. Boudoir card. Circa 1884. Small chip to upper edge of card stock else very good.

Boudoir card depicting a photographic reproduction of an allegorical Civil War painting by Paul Philippoteaux, possibly a panel from one of his four versions of "The Gettysburg Cyclorama." Shows a figure resembling General George McClellan pointing to Abraham Lincoln, his hand on his chest and standing on the steps of a pavilion. A white man and an African American man stand next to Lincoln. The pavilion is comprised of a tent adorned with ornate shields and stone columns marked "Union" and "Liberty." Urns rest atop the columns. Smoke rises from them. A large statue of the figure of Liberty rises over the pavilion. Inside the pavilion, men in suits sit at a long table at which two other men, one in shirt sleeves, stand and sign documents. A crowd of men stand behind and beside the table. Near the "Liberty" column in the right, a white man breaks the shackles of a male slave as armed African Americans rush by. Troops of soldiers march around the pavilion in front of cheering men, women, and children, including blacksmiths near an anvil, flags, and a shield in the right foreground. In the left foreground, an older man holds the reigns of a rider less grey horse next to a man astride a black horse. In the left background, the U.S. Capitol is visible and in the right background ironclads sail on the ocean.