The Political Death of the Bogus Caesar – Antique Print
(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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The Political Death of the Bogus Caesar comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Published in Harper's Weekly on March 13, 1869, this wood engraving marks the close of Andrew Johnson's presidency, which ended on March 4 when Ulysses S. Grant took office. The title casts Johnson as a "bogus Caesar," evoking the Roman leader whose ambitions were seen as a threat to the republic, and the timing of the Ides of March lends the title its dramatic irony. Johnson had survived Senate impeachment by a single vote in May 1868, and cartoons like this one often treated his political fall as a kind of assassination. The page number and date show how weekly illustrated journals drew on classical allusion to comment on current events.
| Created / published | 1869 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1869 March 13, p. 164. Reference copy may be located in Pres. File - Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cartoons; Pol. parties; Pres. I.; Literature (Cartoon theme); Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,067 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-130137 |
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