The house that Jeff built.

1863

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Plate 27.4 x 36.5 cm
Medium: Wood engraving
Depiction: Caricature; political cartoon. Twelve vignettes regarding Jefferson Davis and Southern slave system, following the scheme of the nursery rhyme, "The House that Jack Built".
Signed in plate, lower margin: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863 by D.C. Johnston in the clerks office of the District Court of Massachusetts".
Princeton copy 1 Location history (2015/04): Compartment E // GC024
Princeton copy 1 Overall bright white paper. Housing: Housed in unimat (18 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.).
Princeton copy 2 Sheet 31 x 41 cm. Overall brown discoloration.
Princeton copy 3 Sheet 30.3 x 42.5 cm. Mounted in mat.
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