A lithograph satirizing Jefferson Davis’s infamous 1865 arrest, showing the President fleeing capture disguised in petticoats and a bonnet. Just prior to his arrest, President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis committed a gaffe that only added insult to injury in the wake of the South’s defeat.....
A delightful volume of trial drawings, many of them satirical, for an illustrated alphabet featuring a variety of humorous and imaginative characters complimenting Johnston’s limericks. The volume begins with two calligraphic frontispieces, one consisting of the phrase “The Envelope” graced by an angelic figure holding a brush and canvas.....