The battle of Booneville, or the great Missouri Lyon" Hunt" – Vintage Print
![The battle of Booneville, or the great Missouri Lyon" Hunt", [S.l. : s.n., 1861] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0e/0e161bc897b3-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: The battle of Booneville, or the great Missouri Lyon" Hunt", preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The battle of Booneville, or the great Missouri Lyon" Hunt"
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Here the Missouri campaign is cast as a hunt, with the Union general Nathaniel Lyon's name playing on "lion" in the title. The unsigned lithograph, published in 1861, is attributed to Currier & Ives in standard catalogues of their work and belongs to the wave of Northern political prints that followed the secession crisis. In June 1861, Lyon's federal troops defeated Missouri state forces at Boonville on the Missouri River, one of the early engagements in the fight over whether the state would stay in the Union. Prints like this one show how quickly such battles were turned into popular satire.
| Created / published | [S.l. : s.n., 1861] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 27 x 38 cm. |
| Genre | Political cartoons 1860-1870.Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Title from item. Weitenkampf quite rightly attributes the unsigned work to Currier & Ives. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0430 Weitenkampf, p. 130 Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1861-30. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,129 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-113236 |
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