(CIVIL WAR PRINT) Jeff Sees the Elephant

Sale 2186 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 1,140

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

(CIVIL WAR--PRINT.) Jeff. Sees the Elephant. Hand-colored lithograph, 13 x 17 inches; browned, a few wrinkles, some edge wear, two short edge tears mended on verso, one corner extended, taped to mat in two spots on the top edge verso. Hartford: E.B. & E.C. Kellogg, circa 1861-62

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A well-armed elephant, representing the Union, confronts a wary donkey and his troops armed with pitchforks, representing Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy. A gallows stands ominously in the background. "Perhaps the first time the elephant and donkey were used as symbols of competing political entities, a decade before Thomas Nast is said to have invented them as political symbols"--Christopher Lane, "The Kellogg Menagerie of Civil War Cartoons," Antiques, July 2006.