Image of a political cartoon depicting a tearful Confederate President Jefferson Davis disguised in a dress and bonnet fleeing Union cavalry soldiers riding through a camp on horseback during the American Civil War; a woman (presumably his wife Varina Davis) wears hoop skirts, petticoat, and a corset without a dress as she tries to dissuade the soldiers riding into camp. Date supplied by cataloger based on copy held by Library of Congress.
"A. McLean, lith."--text, lithographer's signature on stone, bottom left of image.
"T. Welcker."--text, artist's signature on stone, bottom right of image.
"All right Madam we can't wait till you have on your Dud's."--text, top left of image, dialogue within cartoon.
"Please Gentlemen don't disturb the Privacy of Ladies before they have time to dress."--text, top center of image, dialogue within cartoon.
"How Jeff in his extremity put his navel affairs and ram-parts under petticoat protection."--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 35.24 x 51.12 cm (13 7/8 x 20 1/8 in.)
Cavalry--Pictorial works Cross dressing--Pictorial works Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889--Pictorial works Soldiers--Pictorial works United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works Lithographs--1850-1875. (gmgpc) Political cartoons. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Military Large Size American Civil War The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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