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All are in Very Good condition, with occasional dust to the backing. All are about 2-1/2" x 4." Light occasional wear, Very Good. 1. EXECUTIVE OFFICE, SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. NY: Brill. 1865. 2-3/8" x 3-7/8." Illustration of a despairing Jefferson Davis, now a prisoner in handcuffs standing in the middle of his small cell. Mrs. Davis's dress and crinoline, in which he was allegedly captured, hangs on a wall in his prison cell. A stool and a pitcher are by his bed. A chain for shackling is on another wall. The verso is blank. Very Good with light wear. 2. THE LAST OF THE CHEVALIERS. (END OF THE PLAY) JEFF: "I THOUGHT YOUR GOVERNMENT WAS MORE MAGNANIMOUS THAN TO HUNT DOWN WOMEN AND CHILDREN." Boston: Prang. 1865. Lithograph print, 2-3/8" x 3-15/16." Jefferson Davis in a woman's long dress, with shawl and cape, holding a knife in his upraised right hand. A hand points a revolver at Davis's head. Davis wears boots, with spurs. "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." Very Good. 3. "DONT PROVOKE HIM. HE MIGHT HURT YOU. [np: 1865]. 2-38" x 3-3/4," mounted on card stock. On the verso is a photo of an elderly gentleman [Davis?], wearing a top hat and standing in front of his house]. Davis is running away, in woman's dress and bonnet, carrying a knife in his right hand. 4. Uncaptioned. Providence: 1865. 2-1/2" x 4." Jeff Davis, elaborately costumed in women's clothing, and Mrs. Davis at his side, is flanked by two Union soldiers, one of whom lifts the bottom of Davis's dress with his sword; the other Union soldier pats Davis on top of his head. They are standing outside Davis's tent. A ghoulish person looks on from inside the tent. 5. Uncaptioned. New York: Anthony. [1865]. Davis wears a woman's dress and cloak. He has a long pigtail and shuffles away from a burning Richmond. 6. In manuscript, "The Neglected Picture." Davis's portrait is enclosed in a frame with shattered glass. Two business cards--one for a rope maker and one for an undertaker--are inserted into inner edges of frame. Photograph of a cartoon. The verso states, in ink manuscript, "From an original oil painting by Wm. M. Davis of Port Jefferson L.I. - 1861." The copy at the Lincoln Financial Foundation confirms Davis as the artist. "William M. Davis produced a trompe l' oeil painting in 1861 based on the most popular likeness of the Confederate president, which had appeared, among other places, on the five-cent Confederate stamp. The center of the artist's work is a tattered lithograph in an old pine frame, with its caption 'Hon. Jeff Davis' fully visible. The lithograph is torn, one corner curls down, and disrespectful signs are pasted over it. But what makes the work successful is the illusion of shattered glass over the print. The painting was photographed in 1862 and distributed as a carte-de-visite entitled The Neglected Picture." Neely, Holzer, Boritt: The Confederate Image, pages 169-170.
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