Political Cartoon of the American Civil War
1860s
Artist, American, born Germany, 1816 - 1868
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink over graphite on blue-gray laid paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Rear Admiral E.H.C. Leutze, son of the artist)
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Dimensions
sheet: 42.55 × 51.75 cm (16 3/4 × 20 3/8 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.277
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Rear Admiral Eugene Henry Cozzens Leutze (son of the artist), New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1917; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1972
The Dusseldorf Academy and the Americans, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1972-1973
Bibliography
1975
Groseclose, Barbara S. Emanuel Leutze, 1816-1868: Freedom is the Only King. Washington, DC: National Collection of Fine Arts, 1975, p. 131, no. 274.
1983
Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 34, no. 244
Watermarks
[unidentified watermark, possibly St. Mars]
Wikidata ID
Q64559364