The Political Chess-Board – 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 Chess-Board comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Political Chess-Board
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The board itself is the subject here: a chessboard set up as a contest among lawmakers, with the 1910 Congress cast as the players. E.W. Kemble, the Harper's Weekly cartoonist known for his sharp pen and his illustrations for Mark Twain's *Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*, drew it for the magazine's February 5, 1910 issue, where it ran across two facing pages. Early 1910 was a contentious season in Congress, with Republicans divided over tariff policy and party leadership, so the chess metaphor suited a moment of maneuvering and sacrifice. The caption details for this print are unverified, so the exact arrangement of figures is worth checking against the magazine itself.
| Created / published | 1910 Feb. 5. |
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| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Drawing by E.W. Kemble. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 5 Feb. 1910, p. 18 and p. 19. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cartoons, U.S.--1910; Congress; B.I.; Publ. Ind.; Chess. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,212 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-149079 |
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