Worship of the North.

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Title: Worship of the North.
Alternate Title: Series title: Confederate war etchings
Date: ca. 1882?]
Creator: Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912 artist.
Notes: A white man is being sacrificed to an African American idol sitting atop a shrine labeled "Chicago Platform." Henry Ward Beecher holds a sacrificial knife, Charles Sumner carries a torch, and Horace Greeley swings a censer which emits snakes. Benjamin Butler, with a locked knapsack labeled "B.F.B. 2,000,000," worships at the shrine. President Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Frémont, and other Northern leaders are present. A statue of John Brown holding a pike stands on a pedestal as "St. Ossawatomie."; Reprinted in the 1880s from original plates created by Volck in the 1860s. Set titled Confederate War Etchings and published by Porter & Coates. This is plate 1.; Adalbert Johann Volck originally published this print under the pseudonym V. Blada.
Names and Subjects: Beecher, Henry Ward,--1813-1887--Caricatures and cartoons.; Sumner, Charles,--1811-1874--Caricatures and cartoons.; Greeley, Horace,--1811-1872--Caricatures and cartoons.; Butler, Benjamin F.--(Benjamin Franklin),--1818-1893--Caricatures and cartoons.; Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Caricatures and cartoons.; Stowe, Harriet Beecher,--1811-1896--Caricatures and cartoons.; Frémont, John Charles,--1813-1890--Caricatures and cartoons.; Brown, John,--1800-1859--Caricatures and cartoons.; Abolitionists--1860-1870.; Abolition movement--United States--1860-1870.; Slavery--United States--1860-1870.; Sectionalism (United States)--1860-1870.; Idols--1860-1870.; Sacrifices--1860-1870.; Caricatures and cartoons--United States.; Prints shelf.; James S. Schoff Civil War Collection.; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.; Porter & Coates,--publisher.; United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Genre: Satires (Visual works) 1880-1890.; Etchings 1880-1890.
Collection Title: James S. Schoff Civil War Collection
ID: 346
Barcode: B6325193
Physical Description: 1 print : etching ; 19.7 x 28.2 cm, on sheet 29.2 x 37.8 cm.
Repository: William L. Clements Library
Date Added/Updated: 2016-02-20 00:25:07

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Collection: William L. Clements Library Image Bank
Image Size: 5145 x 3645
File Size: 799 KB
Record: 346
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