This class includes editorial, political, comic strips, gag cartoons and others.
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Naughty Jonathan
Bradbury and Evans
The cartoon is a reproduction of a nineteenth century political cartoon that depicts figures representing U.S., Great Britain, and Queen Victoria, and refers the British acceptance of US apology for the Trent Affair. The reproduction print has been removed from an unidentified bound volume. However, the original work appeared in the 18 January 1862 edition of Punch, a weekly British satirical magazine established in 1841 by wood engraver Ebenezer Landells and writer Henry Mayhew.
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Shadows of the Times. Pl. 3
Peter Kramer and Kramer and Muringer
The lithograph is one in a series of three Civil War satires featuring shadow figures. The third plate features six cartoons that cynically depict the exploitation of war news. In the topmost cartoon, a battle scene is shown. Three center cartoons depict citizens reading war news, a man with a raised fist, and a bugler receiving instructions. The bottom two cartoons show a sentry and sergeant conversing and soldiers threatening a cow.
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The Genu-ine Othello
John Tenniel and Bradbury and Evans
The cartoon is a reproduction of a nineteenth century political cartoon that depicts black man standing between threatening figures of Abraham Lincoln and a Southern sympathizer. The reproduction print has been removed from an unidentified bound volume. However, the original work appeared in the 9 November 1861 edition of Punch, a weekly British satirical magazine established in 1841 by wood engraver Ebenezer Landells and writer Henry Mayhew.
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Shadows of the Times. Pl. 1
Peter Kramer and Kramer and Muringer
The lithograph is one in a series of three Civil War satires featuring shadow figures. The first plate features six cartoons that cynically depict European intervention. The top image represents the anxiety toward European invasion during the Civil War. On the right, Queen Victoria is pictured surrounded by a lion, a bagpipe player, and a storm of demons. To the left, Columbia is shown with an American flag, eagle, and man wearing broken shackles. The second cartoon show Emperor Napoleon III of France with another officer standing before two portraits, one of an exiled Napoleon Bonaparte on the island of St. Helena and another of Emperor Frederick the Great leading his army.
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The Last Ditch Of The Chivalry, Or A President In Petticoats
Currier and Ives
The photograph depicts a caricature of Jefferson Davis in female clothing, holding a bag of gold, pursued by Union soldiers, crying, "Let me alone, you blood thirsty villains...." Mrs. Davis responds, "Look out you vile Yankees, if you make him mad he will hurt some of you!"
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The Gunboat Candidate At The Battle of Malvern Hill
The political cartoon depicts General McClellan commanding his troops from a safe distance while seated astride a saddle mounted on the boom of a ship. The publisher date, place, and name not indicated; There is some damage at the object's left and right
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Brutus and Caesar. (From the American Edition of Shakespeare.)
John Tenniel
Wood-engraved cartoon from the Victorian-era publication Punch. The cartoon depicts Abraham Lincoln dressed as Marcus Junius Brutus. An African-American man stands next to him dressed as Julius Caesar. An African-American man dressed in clown-like clothing is shown sleeping in the background.
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The American Difficulty.
John Tenniel
Wood-engraved cartoon from the Victorian-era publication Punch. The cartoon depicts a caricature image of Abraham Lincoln seated before a fireplace stoking a fire.
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The Rail Candidate
Louis Maurer and Curier and Ives
The cartoon depicts Abraham Lincoln uncomfortably straddling a rail labeled "Republican Platform" carried by a black man (left) and abolitionist editor of the New York Tribune, Horace Greeley (right).
