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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CIVIL WAR--PRINTS.) Tilley, H.H., engraver; after Gwinn Harris Heap. Arms of ye Confederacie. Engraving, 4 x 4 3/4 inches, on stiff paper; light toning. Np, circa 1862
"A small card bearing a vitriolic indictment of the Confederacy. The artist particularly attacks the institution of slavery, the foundation of Southern economy. A large shield is flanked by two figures: a planter (left) and a slave. . . . On the shield are images associated with the South: a mint julep, a bottle of "Old Rye," a pistol and dagger, a whip and manacles, cotton, tobacco, and sugar plants, and slaves hoeing. In the background left, dominated by the palmetto tree of South Carolina, three planters, one holding a whip, play cards at a table. Beyond, two men duel with pistols. On the right, a female slave is auctioned as two slave children stand by and a black woman watches from a cabin doorway"--Reilly 1862-13. The artist Heap was a clerk for his brother-in-law, Admiral David Dixon Porter, and is mentioned several times in the published diary of Secretary of Navy Gideon Welles, who described his "ludicrous letters and caricatures." The present example comes from the Welles family papers. with--a calling card signed by Heap.
