Details
Creator Cameron, John artist.
Contributor Currier & Ives, publisher.
Title The capture of an unprotected female, or the close up of the rebellion. [graphic] / J. Cameron
Publisher New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St
Date 1865
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph; sheet 35 x 46 cm (14 x 18 in.)
Description Cartoon satirizing the capture of the Confederate president Jefferson Davis by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, , while wearing his wife’s overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Davis, attired in a bonnet and long-sleeved dress, is surrounded at gunpoint by jeering Union soldiers. Davis holds his hands in the air as one soldier pulls up his dress to reveal trousers and boots with spurs. Mrs. Davis, the lone female figure, begs the soldiers to leave her husband alone as they mockingly comment on his legs.
Is referenced by Weitenkampf p. 151.
Notes Title from item.
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress AD 1865 by Currier & Ives in the clerk's office of the district court of the United States for the southern district of N.Y.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Capture & inprisonment.
Davis, Varina, 1826-1906 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Cross-dressing.
Cross dressing.
Crossdressing.
Gender roles.
Gender transgression.
Soldiers -- Union.
Women.
Queer history.
Women.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military personnel.
Genre Political cartoons -- 1860-1870.
Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Transphobic works.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| political cartoons - 1864-31W [P.8978]
Accession number P.8978