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• PUBLISHER: Published by Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau St. New York.

• MEDIUM: Lithograph,

  DATE: undated.

• EDITION SIZE: Small folio - image size 8 3/4 x 12 7/16" (21.3 x 32.4 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: Conningham lists the date as 1870, this impression has no date.<BR> The image shows Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner at the table with the Devil on his right.<BR><BR> Above Sumner's head "The Country may go to you. . . what I want is revenge!"<BR> Above the Devil's head "All right Senator, I'll take charge of your case."<BR><BR> Two signs on table "Letter to Colored Citizens" and "Sumner's Speech Against Grant." <BR><BR> The date of the print is more likely 1871 when he got into a dispute with President Grant over the attempted annexation of Santo Domingo. Grant had him removed from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which he chaired 1861-1871.

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Good condition, save for a very minor mat line.

• REFERENCE: Conningham #5460 (variant no date).

• CATEGORIES: Currier & Ives , Caricatures and Satirical , Political & Early American