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Argument of the chivalry – Antique Wall Art

Argument of the chivalry, 1856 — antique lithograph
Argument of the chivalry, 1856. Antique lithograph 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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The record credits this 1856 lithograph to a young Winslow Homer, whose initials "WH" appear as its monogram, making it one of his earliest surviving prints. It responds to the caning of Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the Senate that May, when Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina beat him with a cane after Sumner's speech on Kansas. The subjects listed include Brooks, Sumner, Lawrence Keitt, Robert Toombs, Stephen Douglas, John Crittenden, and Henry Ward Beecher, so the sheet draws its audience into the wider national quarrel over slavery that the attack came to symbolize.

Created / published1856
Medium1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 36.9 x 51.8 cm. (image)
NotesProbably printed by John H. Bufford, Boston. Signed with monogram: WH (Winslow Homer). Title appears as it is written on the item. Tatham, Pictorial Responses to the Caning of Senator Sumner
SubjectsBeecher, Henry Ward,--1813-1887. Brooks, Preston S. (Preston Smith),--1819-1857. Crittenden, John J. (John Jordan),--1787-1863. Douglas, Stephen Arnold,--1813-1861. Keitt, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Massillon),--1824-1864. Sumner, Charles,--1811-1874. Toombs, Robert Augustus,--1810-1885. United States.--Congress.--Senate--1850-1860. Beating--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,129 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-118733

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