Lot 550
[ENSLAVEMENT & ABOLITION - CIVIL WAR]. [NAST, Thomas (1840-1902), artist]. Compromise With the South if McClellan is President. N.p., ca 1864.
Sale 2057 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Oct 25, 2024
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Lot Description
[ENSLAVEMENT & ABOLITION - CIVIL WAR]. [NAST, Thomas (1840-1902), artist]. Compromise With the South if McClellan is President. N.p., ca 1864.
10 x 14 7/8 in. (sight) wood engraving, matted and framed. A rare engraving showing who appears to be Jefferson Davis shaking hands with a Union soldier over a tombstone, which reads: "In Memory of the Union-Heroes who fell in a use-less war." Columbia is shown kneeling at the grave. This cartoon may reference the Democratic Party Convention during the 1864 presidential election.
RARE: Only one institutional copy located at UCLA Berkeley.
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