Details
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title "Have you seen anything of a Merrimac about here?" [graphic] / Morse.
Publisher [Philadelphia?]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1862
Date [1862]
Physical Description 1 print: woodcut; 47 x 36 cm.(18.25 x 13.75 in.)
Description Caricature of a sailor with a ring of cannons around his waist reading "The Cheese" to represent the Union ironclad, the Monitor, mocked by the Confederates as a "cheese-box." The battle between the smaller Monitor and the larger Confederate ironclad, the Virginia, (i.e., Merrimac) ended in a stalemate in March 1862.
Notes Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War era posters.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject Monitor (Ironclad) -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Sailors.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations.
Genre Woodcuts -- 1860-1870.
Caricatures -- 1860-1870.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| political cartoons [1862] - Ha [(6)5777.F.32b]
Accession number (6)5777.F.32b