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Photo, Print, Drawing The end of the republican party After "The Destruction of Jerusalem" by Kaulbach.

[ digital file from original print ]

About this Item

Title

  • The end of the republican party After "The Destruction of Jerusalem" by Kaulbach.

Summary

  • After a large painting by Wilhelm von Kaulbach showing the "destruction of Jerusalem", this print shows the demise of the Republican Party with various Republicans, Mugwumps, Democrats, and allegorical figures, along with portraits of Jefferson, Washington, and Lincoln, as well as the newly elected Democratic president Grover Cleveland on horseback (as the Roman emperor Titus), with Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks on horseback behind him, and Carl Schurz and another man, carrying fasces, walking beside them. At center appears Samuel Tilden holding up a shield labeled "1876" and brandishing a short sword. He appears about to strike a man, possibly Rutherford B. Hayes, winner of the controversial 1876 presidential election. Moving toward the foreground, James G. Blaine is standing with a large dagger raised, which he is about to plunge into a fainted female figure labeled "Republican Party" supported by his left arm; kneeling beside Blaine is Benjamin Butler holding a jester doll. Three crouching figures in front of Butler are Chester A. Arthur, John A. Logan, and an unidentified man wearing glasses. A man labeled "Corruption", possibly John Roach, flees to the left, pursued by three male furies. On the far right is a "flight to Egypt" scene with a Madonna and two children riding on a mule, which has stopped to graze on a thistle, other figures are around them, as well as two men walking in the midst who may be Henry Ward Beecher and Thomas F. Bayard. Above the central figures are three trumpeters, one holding a staff topped with an eagle and bearing the initials G.C., hearlding the arrival of Grover Cleveland. Above these figures appears a horde of angels wielding rushes. In the upper left corner, several people are standing at the entrance to a temple, among them are Whitelaw Reid and John St. John.

Names

  • Bowman, M.P., copyright claimant
  • Kaulbach, Wilhelm von, 1804-1874, artist

Created / Published

  • [1884?], c1884 October.

Headings

  • -  Titus,--Emperor of Rome,--40-81
  • -  Washington, George,--1732-1799
  • -  Jefferson, Thomas,--1743-1826
  • -  Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865
  • -  Tilden, Samuel J.--(Samuel Jones),--1814-1886
  • -  Hayes, Rutherford B.,--1822-1893
  • -  Blaine, James Gillespie,--1830-1893
  • -  Butler, Benjamin F.--(Benjamin Franklin),--1818-1893
  • -  Cleveland, Grover,--1837-1908
  • -  Hendricks, Thomas A.--(Thomas Andrews),--1819-1885
  • -  Arthur, Chester Alan,--1829-1886
  • -  Logan, John Alexander,--1826-1886
  • -  Roach, John,--1813-1887
  • -  Beecher, Henry Ward,--1813-1887
  • -  Bayard, Thomas F.--(Thomas Francis),--1828-1898
  • -  Reid, Whitelaw,--1837-1912
  • -  St. John, John Pierce,--1833-1916
  • -  Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
  • -  Presidential elections--United States--1880-1890

Format Headings

  • Allegorical prints--1880-1890.
  • Cartoons (Commentary)--1880-1890.
  • Lithographs--1880-1890.

Genre

  • Allegorical prints--1880-1890
  • Cartoons (Commentary)--1880-1890
  • Lithographs--1880-1890

Notes

  • -  18742 U.S. Copyright Office.
  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Copyright 1884 by M.P. Bowman, New York.

Medium

  • 1 print : lithograph on paper ; on sheet 55.4 x 66.5 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PGA - Bowman--End of the Republican ... (C size) [P&P]

Repository

Digital Id

  • pga 03549 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.03549

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2009633499

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-pga-03549 (digital file from original print)

Rights Advisory

  • No known restrictions on publication.

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Bowman, M.P., Copyright Claimant, and Wilhelm Von Kaulbach. The end of the republican party After "The Destruction of Jerusalem" by Kaulbach. United States, ca. 1884. [1884?, October] Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2009633499/.

APA citation style:

Bowman, M. P. & Kaulbach, W. V. (ca. 1884) The end of the republican party After "The Destruction of Jerusalem" by Kaulbach. United States, ca. 1884. [1884?, October] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2009633499/.

MLA citation style:

Bowman, M.P., Copyright Claimant, and Wilhelm Von Kaulbach. The end of the republican party After "The Destruction of Jerusalem" by Kaulbach. [1884?, October] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2009633499/>.