Details
Contributor L. Prang & Co., printer.
Title The last of the chevaliers. (End of the play.) [graphic] : Jeff. "I thought your government was more magnanimous than to hunt down women and children."
Publisher Boston, Mass. : L. Prang & Co
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1865
Date 1865
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; 10 x 6 cm. (4 x 2.5 in.)
Description Comic collecting card satirizing the unusual circumstances of the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Depicts a full-length view of Davis, attired in a shawl, a hoop skirt with a patch, and boots with spurs. A bonnet is tied around his neck, the edge of his skirt cage is visible, and he holds up a dagger in his right hand. A disembodied hand with a gun is pointed at him from the left.
Notes Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by L. Prang & Co., in the Clerk’s Office, of the district court of Mass.
Subject Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Capture & imprisonment.
Cross dressing.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre Collecting cards -- 1860-1870.
Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Satires (Visual works) -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| GC - Civil War - Davis [P.2017.22.3]
Accession number P.2017.22.3