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Senator Edmunds' trojan horse. Deserted by all the Greeks save himself, the Senator's stratagem is a monumental failure – Historic Reproduction

Senator Edmunds' trojan horse. Deserted by all the Greeks save himself, the Senator's stratagem is a monumental failure, 1886 — antique engraving
Senator Edmunds' trojan horse. Deserted by all the Greeks save himself, the Senator's stratagem is a monumental failure, 1886. Antique engraving from the Horses collection.

(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: Senator Edmunds' trojan horse. Deserted by all the Greeks save himself, the Senator's stratagem is a monumental failure, preserved in this antique engraving. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Few political cartoons of the 1880s put a senator inside the wooden horse, but this 1886 engraving does just that, casting Vermont Republican George Franklin Edmunds as the lone Greek left inside after his comrades have abandoned him. The print ran in *The Daily Graphic* on April 7, 1886, and its title, "Senator Edmunds' trojan horse," reads as a verdict that his scheme collapsed. Edmunds was one of the most prominent senators of his day, best known for the Edmunds Act of 1882, which targeted polygamy. Artists of the period often used the Trojan horse to mock a politician's clever maneuver that backfired.

Created / published1886
Medium1 print : engraving.
SubjectsIllus. in: The Daily Graphic, 1886 April 7, v. 40, no. 4072. Reference copy may be available in BIOG FILE - Edmunds, George Franklin, 1828-1919--Cartoons--1886. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Caricatures...--Amer.--1886--April; Trojan horse (Cartoon theme)--1886; BI; Shelf. Sources checked: B.D.A.C.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,230 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145890

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