A scarce allegorical print for the 1864 presidential campaign, showing Democratic running-mates George B. McClellan and George H. Pendleton lifting a battered Lady Liberty to her feet, and illustrating their conflicting visions for the end of the Civil War. Shedding a tear for the injured Nation, Lady Liberty is supported.....
A campaign lithograph of a beardless Lincoln, published during his first run for the presidency in 1860. One of the most sought after Lincoln likenesses, this half-length portrait of the future President—after the Mathew Brady photograph known as the Cooper Union portrait—shows the young candidate in a black waistcoat, jacket.....
A scarce 1860 presidential campaign cartoon depicting Abraham Lincoln being carried into a lunatic asylum on a rail, followed by the radical outcasts who support him. Loosely based on an anti-Frémont cartoon from the previous election cycle, this print satirizes the Republican Party platform represented by Lincoln and (it suggests).....
An early anti-Republican campaign cartoon sneering at the party’s first-ever presidential candidate, John C. Frémont, and lampooning his supporters as a scattered band of eccentric, unattractive radicals. Frémont hears the requests of his would-be constituents, who are, from left to right, “a temperance advocate, a cigar-smoking, trousered suffragette, a ragged.....