A proper family re-union – Antique Wall Art
(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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This rare antique lithograph captures A proper family re-union in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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A proper family re-union
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A lithograph from 1865 gathers Jefferson Davis, Benedict Arnold and the Devil into one family portrait under the title "A proper family re-union." The joke depends on the two prisons named in its subjects, Andersonville in Georgia and Libby in Richmond, where Union captives endured brutal conditions and many died. By linking the Confederate president to the country's most notorious traitor and to these prisons, the cartoon casts the defeated South's leaders as kin to treason and cruelty. Its late-1865 publication, after the war's end, shows how sharply Northern audiences still judged the former Confederacy.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 26.6 x 31 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860-1870.Political cartoons 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Designed by Burgoo Zac. Entered . . . 1865 by Oscar H. Harpel, (Opera House, Cincinnati) Ohio. Title appears as it is written on the item. Weitenkampf, p. 148. Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress) Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1865-12. |
| Subjects | Arnold, Benedict,--1741-1801. Davis, Jefferson,--1808-1889. Andersonville Prison--1860-1870. Libby Prison--1860-1870. Devil--1860-1870. Prisons--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,226 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-119059 |
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