Columbia demands her children!
Baker, Joseph E.,
approximately 1837-1914
still image
graphic
government publication
Satires (Visual works)-1860-1870.
mau
monographic
Boston
s.n.]
1864
eng
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 20.3 x 29.3 cm. (image)
An impassioned attack on Abraham Lincoln and the human toll of the Union war effort. Columbia, wearing a liberty cap and a skirt made of an American flag, demands, "Mr. Lincoln, give me back my 500,000 sons!!!" At the right, Lincoln, unfazed, sits at a writing desk, his leg thrown over the chair back. A proclamation calling for "500 Thous. More Troops," signed by him, lies at his feet. He replies, "Well the fact is--by the way that reminds me of a Story!!!" The artist refers to the false report published by the "New York World" that Lincoln joked on the battlefield of Antietam. (See "The Commander-in-Chief Conciliating the Soldier's Votes," no. 1864-30.)
No known restrictions on publication.
Signed: J.E. Baker del. (Joseph E. Baker).
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Caption label from exhibit of digital copy in "Swann Gallery": Lincoln's Civil War Policies. Miss Columbia, a symbol of the American people, confronts President Abraham Lincoln and decries the enormous human toll of the Civil War by demanding, "Mr. Lincoln, give me back my 500,000 sons!!!" Lincoln avoids her gaze and replies evasively despite the proclamation at his feet calling for more troops. Produced late in the Civil War, this print criticizes the president's war policy. Artist Joseph E. Baker, produced many military prints for J. H. Bufford in Boston.
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1864-34.
Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
Lincoln, Abraham,
1809-1865
Columbia (Symbolic character)
1860-1870
PC/US - 1864.B1675, no. 1
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.15768
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b36119
Weitenkampf,
p. 140
American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
(DLC) 2005680400
2008661676
LC-DIG-ppmsca-15768 DLC
LC-USZ62-89748 DLC
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hdl:loc.pnp/cph.3b36119
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