Details
Creator Hacker, Francis.
Contributor Andrieu, M. A. (Mathuren Arthur), artist.
Title [Caricature of capture of Jefferson Davis May 10, 1865] [graphic] / [M A] Andrieu.
Publisher Rhode Island : Francis Hacker
Publisher Rhode Island. 1865
Date 1865
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 11 x 6 cm (4.25 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description Carte-de-visite caricature satirizing the unusual circumstances of the capture of the Confederate president, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Depicts Davis being inspected by Union soldiers as he emerges from a tent, holding a basket, while attired in a hood and skirt. His wife, Varina Davis, stands next to him. An African American enslaved servant depicted with oversize and exagerrated features peers from behind the tent flap. Bottles and a case marked "Silver Spoons, C.S.A." (an allusion to Jefferson's safeguarding of the remaining Confederate treasury) lay on the ground in front of the tent. Also shows a saddle hanging in a tree to the right of the tent.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Publication information from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by Francis Hacker, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Rhode Island.
See photo - Hacker [5795.F.15a].
RVCDC
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Subject Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Capture & imprisonment.
Davis, Varina, 1826-1906 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Finance -- Confederate States of America.
Cross dressing.
Enslaved persons -- Confederate States of America.
Enslaved men -- Confederate States of America.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Caricatures -- 1860-1870.
Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons - [P.2016.63]
Accession number P.2016.63