Details
Contributor Stauch, Edward, approximately 1830-, printer.
Title Uncle Sam protecting his property against the encroachments of his cousin John.
Publisher Pennsylvania : E. Stauch
Date 1861
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 43 x 36 cm (17 x 14 in.)
Description Print depicting Uncle Sam grabbing John Bull by the neck showing upset over intervention in the Civil War. Uncle Sam, depicted as a Union soldier closely resembling Abraham Lincoln, holds a sword labeled, "Principle of Non-Enterference." He pulls John Bull by the back of his neck who is poaching plants from a garden. John Bull is attired in a military uniform and cannons on his legs labeled, "Armstrong's Patent," referring to English manufactured weapons used by the Confederates. Standing on a fence post in the left is a cock with the face of Napoleon III, who watches the scene. In the background is an oversized scarecrow with a sign that reads, "All persons tresspassing[sic] these premisses, will be punished according to Law." The corpses of the dead bodies of Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard and Confederate president Jefferson Davis hang from nooses from the scarecrow's arms. In the right are depictions of three African American heads, depicted in racist caricature, as cotton plants.
Is referenced by Weitenkampf, F. Political caricature in the United States in separately published cartoons, p. 132
Reilly, Bernard F. American political prints, 1766-1876, p. 483
Notes Title from item.
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by E. Stauch in the Clerk's Office of the U.St. Court of the eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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Subject Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Animals -- Symbolic aspects.
Cotton.
Dead persons.
John Bull (Symbolic character) -- Pictorial works.
Racism in popular culture.
Scarecrows.
Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)
African American history.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Political cartoons -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| political cartoons - 1861-39 [P.2023.61.2]
Accession number P.2023.61.2