Price: $1,950.00
SKU: 102582
PUBLISHER: Unidentified but most likely Currier & Ives.
MEDIUM: Lithograph,
DATE: undated, circa 1861.
EDITION SIZE: Small folio - vignette - image size 11 5/8 x 11" (29.5 x 27.9 cm).
DESCRIPTION: A caricature of Jefferson Davis, probably issued not long after the bombardment of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Certainly, after Davis’s February 18, 1861, election as president of the Confederacy, Davis is shown standing on gallows, draped in the Confederate flag, and wearing a misshapen Phrygian cap on his head. <BR><BR> First state, before the skull and crossbones are added on Jefferson Davis shirt. <BR><BR> Northern comments on the left “So Perish all traitors to the Union.” On the right, four individuals are all with rope around their necks. <BR> They include Robert Toombs, Secretary of State of the Confederacy, “I Begin to Feel Week in the Knees!”<BR> Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard, “Oh Jeff! Jeff! Is that the elevated position that you promised me?” <BR> Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, “Alas! Alas! I prophesied in November that secession would be the death of us.” <BR> Francis Wilkinson Pickens, governor of South Carolina, the first state to secede, “Can it be possible that they will dare to hang a ‘gentleman from South Carolina?”
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CONDITION: Good condition.
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