Details
Creator Currier & Ives.
Title John Bull makes a discovery. [graphic].
Publisher [New York] : [Published by Currier & Ives?]
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1861
Date [1861]
Physical Description 1 print ; lithograph ; sheet 27 x 33 cm (10.5 x 13.75 in.)
Description Racist cartoon reflecting the Northern fear that Britain's economic ties with Southern cotton growers would cause the British government to relinquish its abolitionist stance in order to support the Confederacy. Depicts a plump John Bull, representing Great Britain, centered between a kneeling enslaved African American man and a bale of cotton in a storage shed. Bull touches the hair of the African American man with his right hand and holds a piece of the cotton from the bale in the other. He declares, "it is certain that Cotton is more useful to me than Wool!!" In the left background, two African American men stand and cry. In the right background, a Southern white man plantation owner looks on and smiles.
Is referenced by Reilly, 1861-40
Weitenkampf, p. 133
Murrell, p. 223
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Possible publisher supplied by Murrell.
McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Cotton.
Cotton industry.
John Bull (Symbolic character) -- 1860-1870.
Racism in popular culture.
Slavery -- United States.
Enslaved persons -- United States.
Enslaved men -- United States.
Enslavers -- United States.
Geographic subject Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre Anti-slavery prints -- United States -- 1860-1870.
Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Political cartoons -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political Cartoons - 1861-40R [5780.Fa]
Accession number 5780.Fa