A framed antique engraving "First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation to the Cabinet", depicting (L to R) Edwin Stanton, President Lincoln, William Seward, Edward Bates; engraving by Alexander Hay Ritchie, after the painting by Francis Bicknell Carpenter (Carpenter spent six months in the White House while he painted. The painting is displayed at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.), size as framed 31 x 40, presented in period frame ca late 19th century