Details
Contributor Beard, Frank, 1842-1905
Title Why don't you take it? [graphic].
Publisher United States: s.n
Publisher US. 1861
Date [1861]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 35 x 46 cm.(13.75 x 18.5 in.)
Description Cartoon promoting the existence of a Union stronghold to defend against a Confederate seizure of Washington, D.C. Depicts General Winfield Scott as the bulldog, "Old General U.S.," protecting the cut of meat, "Washington Prime Beef," from the snarling, retreating greyhound "Jeff" (Confederate President Jefferson Davis). Davis, wearing a Confederate flag and broad-brimmed hat, slinks back to his side where a bale of cotton lies and a palmetto tree stands. Scott sits guard in front of several money bags, a cannon, and barrels of corn, flour, and "Mess Beef."
Is referenced by Weitenkampf p. 131.
See Murrell, Graphic Humour p. 221.
See Reilly 1861-26.
Notes Per Weitenkampf, one of four variant designs after original by cartoonist Frank T. Beard that was also used on Civil War patriotic envelopes.
Contains manuscript note lower right corner: Ballard Vale 1861.
Contains manuscript note on verso: VA Ballard Vale May 1861.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866,
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Dogs.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Economic & industrial aspects.
Genre Political cartoons -- 1860-1870.
Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| political cartoons - 1861-54W [P.2275.15]
Accession number P.2275.15