"UNCLE SAM'S MENAGERIE" PRINT WITH UNCLE SAM, JEFF DAVIS, & "GALLOW'S BIRDS."
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Auction #209 - Part I
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Item Description
11-3/8x14-5/8" print somewhat trimmed but with margins on all sides. Above the title in small text is: "Entered According To Act Of Congress Ad June 7, 1865 By G. Querner In The Clerks Office Of The Sup. Court D.C." This date is exactly one month before the execution by hanging of the Lincoln conspirators on July 7, 1865. Perched on gallows, with nooses around their necks, are birds with human heads. Depicted left to right with name captions are: "O. Loughlin, Harold (sic), Atzerodt, Payne, Mrs. Suratt (sic), Booth (as a skull with black crow perched upon), Arnold Spangler, Dr. Mudd." Below an early version of beardless Uncle Sam directs a pointer at Booth's skull. Next to Uncle Sam a screened cage holds "Hyena Jeff Davis" with his front claws on a skull, a woman's bonnet on his head and a rope noose leading to a pulley above and then down to a winch the man at right is cranking. At lower center a man in a Civil War cap cranks a musical hand organ with "Yankee Doodle" printed backwards on a paper on top of the instrument. Around Uncle Sam's lower legs and just to the right are about 12 small rub spots that lost a thin layer of the black printed color. Paper is not particularly brittle but the print is quite tanned all over and with moisture mark on bottom right margin. Three insect pin holes on Uncle Sam's hat. Upper edge has 5/8" hairline tear and right edge has 3/8" sliver repaired by archival tape on reverse. A wonderful print even with the tanning and minor damage. The only other example we found is in Library of Congress, trimmed and with large piece missing from lower left. Rare.
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