Shadows of the times. [graphic] /. P. Kramer del.
Title
Shadows of the times
Description
Series of three Civil War satires containing captioned vignettes utilizing shadow figures to cynically depict the threat of a European intervention; the prowess of the military; and the exploitation of war news. Plate 1 contains two scenes foreshadowing possible British, French, and Prussian invasions. Shows Queen Victoria, on the shore of Britain, accompanied by demons and restraining the British lion while she threatens Columbia, "I will sink your ships and burn your factories they are a perfect nuisance." Columbia, atop a globe flanked by warships, holding an American flag and shield, and with a man at her feet thumbing his nose at Britain, replies, "You don't say so!! Very glad to see you." Second scene shows Emperor Napoleon III, and probably, Prussian commander Otto Von Bismarck conversing in a parlor in front of framed paintings of Napoleon I in exile and Frederick the Great commanding his army. Bismark points to the Napoleon painting and comments "General. St. Helena is not forgotten." Plate 2 includes "Good Bye to the Lager" showing male civilians and a soldier at a saloon; the disorganized and distracted "Jeff. Davis' Body Guard"; soldiers chasing, bayoneting; and roasting pigs for "Pig duty in the Sacred Soil"; and "Rather moist" showing a military caravan crossing a river. Plate 3 includes "Somerset Polka (Quick Step)" depicting the death and chaos of a military battle; newsboys hawking the "Evening Bulletin. Capture of Fort Pulsing" to a crowd of eager pedestrians; a soldier, "One of the Chivalry in excitement," stretching from a nap; overweight and doddering soldiers "Going to play the Yankee Doodle down South"; an officer in a huff demanding "Why didn't you call when you saw me coming?" to a lieutenant who responds, "Senty. Beg pardon Sir, I thought you was an animal."; and infantrymen threatening a cow "Surrender or you are a dead Man.", Plate numbers printed upper right corner., Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of Civil War materials and Civil War caricatures and photographs., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Kramer, Peter, 1823-1907, artist
Date
c1862
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons 1862-3 [(10)1540.F; 5780.F; 5780.F.32-34]
Shadows of the times. [graphic] /. P. Kramer del.
Title
Shadows of the times
Description
Series of three Civil War satires containing captioned vignettes utilizing shadow figures to cynically depict the threat of a European intervention; the prowess of the military; and the exploitation of war news. Plate 1 contains two scenes foreshadowing possible British, French, and Prussian invasions. Shows Queen Victoria, on the shore of Britain, accompanied by demons and restraining the British lion while she threatens Columbia, "I will sink your ships and burn your factories they are a perfect nuisance." Columbia, atop a globe flanked by warships, holding an American flag and shield, and with a man at her feet thumbing his nose at Britain, replies, "You don't say so!! Very glad to see you." Second scene shows Emperor Napoleon III, and probably, Prussian commander Otto Von Bismarck conversing in a parlor in front of framed paintings of Napoleon I in exile and Frederick the Great commanding his army. Bismark points to the Napoleon painting and comments "General. St. Helena is not forgotten." Plate 2 includes "Good Bye to the Lager" showing male civilians and a soldier at a saloon; the disorganized and distracted "Jeff. Davis' Body Guard"; soldiers chasing, bayoneting; and roasting pigs for "Pig duty in the Sacred Soil"; and "Rather moist" showing a military caravan crossing a river. Plate 3 includes "Somerset Polka (Quick Step)" depicting the death and chaos of a military battle; newsboys hawking the "Evening Bulletin. Capture of Fort Pulsing" to a crowd of eager pedestrians; a soldier, "One of the Chivalry in excitement," stretching from a nap; overweight and doddering soldiers "Going to play the Yankee Doodle down South"; an officer in a huff demanding "Why didn't you call when you saw me coming?" to a lieutenant who responds, "Senty. Beg pardon Sir, I thought you was an animal."; and infantrymen threatening a cow "Surrender or you are a dead Man.", Plate numbers printed upper right corner., Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of Civil War materials and Civil War caricatures and photographs., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Kramer, Peter, 1823-1907, artist
Date
c1862
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons 1862-3 [(10)1540.F; 5780.F; 5780.F.32-34]