(CIVIL WAR PRINTS) A Disloyal British Subject

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(CIVIL WAR--PRINTS.) A Disloyal British "Subject." Lithograph, 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches; uneven toning (mostly in margins), inch-long closed tear in lower corner. New York: Currier & Ives, [1861]

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A satire on the British Proclamation of Neutrality. John Bull discourages a poor Irishman from taking sides in the conflict, warning that "I shan't protect you if you are taken as a pirate." The Irishman points at an American ship in harbor and replies "I don't want your protecshun, th'ould Stars and Stripes there that I'm fight'n for will protect me." This was one of the first Currier & Ives political cartoons to move from dialogue balloons to caption text. Peters 1627, plate 238, and page 88.