Image of an allegorical critique of the American Civil War criticizing the Buchanan administration, Jefferson Davis, and the Confederacy; President Abraham Lincoln and allegorical female figures Liberty and Justice stand on an elevated plane with an American flag, bald eagle, and scale, surrounded by a crowd of people carrying symbols of rebellion, bags of money and weapons; former president James Buchanan and his Secretary of War John B. Floyd kneel in foreground; a serpent wearing a crown hisses at Justice from a tree at left. "Kimmel & Forster, N.Y."--text, bottom right margin.
"New York Published by Kimmel & Forster [256] Canal St."--text, bottom center margin.
"Entered according to Act of Congress AD 1865, by Kimmel & Forster in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York."--text, bottom center margin.
Extent
1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 52.07 x 68.26 cm (20 1/2 x 26 7/8 in.)
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868--Pictorial works Eagles--Pictorial works Flags--Pictorial works Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863--Pictorial works Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works Politicians--Pictorial works Soldiers--Pictorial works United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works Lithographs--1850-1875. (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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