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Mending the family kettle – Vintage Wall Art

Mending the family kettle, 1866 — antique engraving
Mending the family kettle, 1866. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive 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: Mending the family kettle, preserved in this antique engraving. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Andrew Johnson, the Tennessee-born president who took office after Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, appears here in a wood engraving that uses a household kettle as its central symbol. The cartoon ran in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper in June 1866, at the height of the fight between Johnson and Congress over how the defeated Southern states would return to the Union. Its subject is Reconstruction, and the figure of Columbia, the national personification of the United States, is included among the subjects. Political cartoons of this period often used domestic objects like a kettle to make complicated constitutional disputes easy to read at a glance.

Created / published1866
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
GenrePeriodical illustrations 1860-1870.Editorial cartoons 1860-1870.Wood engravings 1860-1870.
NotesIllus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 22, no. 559 (1866 June 16), p. 208.
SubjectsJohnson, Andrew,--1808-1875. Kettles--1860-1870. Columbia (Symbolic character)--1860-1870. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,648 × 4,541 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222718

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