Lincoln Crushing the Dragon of Rebellion by David Gilmour Blythe

Painting of a man with a mallet striking a dragon beside a burning city, with a Tammany Hall sign and a Constitution bottle.

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Lincoln Crushing the Dragon of Rebellion, David Gilmour Blythe (1862), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Via artnap.com

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David Gilmour Blythe's 1862 painting Lincoln Crushing the Dragon of Rebellion, held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, shows a figure swinging a mallet at a serpent-like dragon coiled around a column. A burning city and the building labeled Tammany Hall appear in the background, while a chained bottle marked Constitution rests in the foreground.

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Date

1862

Medium

Painting

Museum

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Public domain