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Creator Role
printmaker
Description
In the etching, Volck criticizes the Union cause by depicting several key people gathered around an altar performing a ritual, literally built upon Negro Worship, Free Love, Witchburning, Socialism, Atheism, Rationalism, and Puritanism. Well-known individuals depicted include a devil-like Abraham Lincoln, Henry Ward Beecher, Horace Greely, and Charles Sumner. A crowd of Union sympathizers look on at the ritual. A group of representatives from the Holy Cause of the Contractors stand in the far distance of the image, representing the Confederacy's belief that the North was profiting off of the war on the South.
Description Source
National Portrait Gallery. http://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.79.95.A (accessed June 18, 2018).
Contributor
Justice Frank J. and Virginia Williams
Earliest
1861
Latest
1865
Approximate Creation Date
ca. 1861-1864
Measurement
8 X 10 1/2 inches
Materials and Techniques Display
etching on paper
Inscription
In plate, below image: WORSHIP OF THE NORTH in plate, below image, handwritten in pencil: 1
Subjects
Satire, American; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Caricatures and cartoons
Work Type
Class
prints
Preferred Citation
[Physical ID#]: [Title], Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Mississippi State University Libraries.
Rights
Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.
ID
4842
Digital ID
FVW_04842.1
Current Location
Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States)
Repository
Mississippi State University Libraries.
Digital Publisher
Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version).
Contact Information
For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.