Compromise with the South - Dedicated to the Chicago Convention – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Compromise with the South - Dedicated to the Chicago Convention. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Compromise with the South - Dedicated to the Chicago Convention
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Thomas Nast drew this wood engraving for the September 3, 1864, issue of *Harper's Weekly*, and its dedication to the Chicago Convention points straight at the Democrats who had met in that city that August. The party nominated George B. McClellan on a platform calling for an end to the fighting, which Republicans read as a willingness to settle with the Confederacy. Nast's title, *Compromise with the South*, mocks that position in the middle of a presidential campaign, when *Harper's Weekly* was backing Abraham Lincoln for reelection.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Wood engraving after Nast. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1864 Sept. 3. Ref. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,097 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-106407 |
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