(CIVIL WAR PRINTS) Johnston David Claypoole; artist and pub

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(CIVIL WAR--PRINTS.) Johnston, David Claypoole; artist and publisher. The House that Jeff Built. Engraving, 11 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches; minor foxing, 1-inch closed tear with tape repair on verso. [Boston], 1863

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Twelve vignettes in parody of the children's rhyme "The House that Jack Built," lampooning the slave economy of the Confederacy from an unabashedly abolitionist perspective. The illustrations depict shackles, a slave auction, a whipping, Jefferson Davis, and more. "Jeff's infamous house is doom'd to come down / So says Uncle Sam, and so said John Brown / With slave pen, and auction, shackles, and cat / Together with seller, and buyer, and breeder, and that / Most loathsome of bipeds by some call'd a man / Whose trade is to sell all the chattels he can / From yearlings to adults of life's longest span / In and out of the house that Jeff built." Reilly 1863-9.