- Created by
- Duffy, Edmund, American, 1899 - 1962
- Subject of
- Williams, Matthew, 1908 -1931
- Date
- ca. 1931
- Medium
- lithographic ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (paper): 22 3/4 x 16 in. (57.8 x 40.6 cm)
- H x W (framed): 27 5/8 x 22 9/16 x 13/16 in. (70.2 x 57.3 x 2.1 cm)
- Description
- A lithographic print depicting the 1931 lynching of a man, Matthew Williams, in Salisbury, Maryland. Williams is hanging from a tree with a rope around his neck. He wears a bandage on his head and his body is contorted with head down, knees bent, fingers splayed and toes curled. In the background are houses and buildings, and what may be smoke from a fire rising from the lower left corner. The print is titled and signed by the artist on the front.
- Place depicted
- Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Visual Arts
- Movement
- Anti-Lynching Movement
- Type
- lithographs
- Topic
- Hate crimes
- Local and regional
- Lynching
- Race discrimination
- U.S. History, 1919-1933
- Violence
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Allen Seeber
- Object number
- 2011.66
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public Domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.