Plucked or, The Mexican eagle before the war! The Mexican eagle after the war! – Historic 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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A window into the past: Plucked or, The Mexican eagle before the war! The Mexican eagle after the war!, preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Plucked or, The Mexican eagle before the war! The Mexican eagle after the war!
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Here the Mexican eagle, the national emblem that also appears on Mexico's flag, is shown twice: whole before the war and stripped of its feathers after. The wood engraving ran in *Yankee Doodle*, a New York satirical weekly, in May 1847, while American forces were pushing deep into Mexico. Its joke mocked Mexican defeats and treated the war's outcome as settled, a view common in the American press of the day. Weekly papers like this one used cartoons to reach a broad readership with sharp political commentary.
| Created / published | 1847 May 15. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1840-1850.Wood engravings 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Yankee Doodle, v. 2, no. 32 (1847 May 15), p. 55. |
| Subjects | Mexican War, 1846-1848 Eagles--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,072 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-107309 |
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