- Collection:
- Cartoon Prints, American
- Title:
- Union soldiers in Andersonville prison / The rebel leader, Jeff Davis, at Fortress Monroe / Th. Nast.
- Contributor to Resource:
- Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
- Publisher:
- Philadelphia : Published by King & Baird, Printers
- Date of Original:
- 1865
- Subject:
- Andersonville Prison--1860-1870
Prisoners of war--Confederate--Virginia--1860-1870
Prisoners of war--Union--Georgia--Andersonville--1860-1870
Prisons--Georgia--Andersonville--1860-1870
Prisons--Virginia--1860-1870
Fort Monroe (Va.)--1860-1870
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners--Confederate
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners--Union - People:
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889--Capture and imprisonment
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Sumter County, Andersonville, 32.19599, -84.13991
United States, Virginia, Hampton, Fort Monroe, 37.00561, -76.30486 - Medium:
- political cartoons
wood engravings - Type:
- Still Image
- Description:
- Caption label from exhibit "American Treasures Memory": Reconstruction. Thomas Nast was the most influential political cartoonist in nineteenth-century America. His editorial cartoons for Harper's Weekly, which he joined in 1862, helped inflame Union sentiment during the Civil War. Nast became one of the most visible and voluble critics of the inadequacies of post-war Reconstruction, which was initiated by Lincoln and carried out by his successor Andrew Johnson. This rampant divisiveness is made apparent when Nast sharply juxtaposes the degradation of Union prisoners at Andersonville with the comfort afforded fallen Confederate president Jefferson Davis during his confinement at Fort Monroe.
Published by King & Baird, Printers, Philadelphia.
Signed in block: Th. Nast.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
Exhibited in: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2004-2005. - Local Identifier:
- PC/US - 1865.N265, no. 1 (B size) [P&P]
2008661832
cph 3b47014 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b47014
ppmsca 05574 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.05574
LC-DIG-ppmsca-05574 (digital file from original) LC-USZ62-59398 (b&w film copy neg.) - Metadata URL:
- https://www.loc.gov/item/2008661832
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 print : wood engraving
- Original Collection:
- American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
- Holding Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
-
