Jump to content

File:Young American crushing rebellion and sedition LCCN2003689254.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file (932 × 1,536 pixels, file size: 124 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English: Title: Young American crushing rebellion and sedition

Abstract: A symbolic vision of the North's defeat of the Confederacy. "Young America" or the Union is shown as the infant Hercules strangling two serpents representing rebellion and sedition. According to Greek mythology the serpents were sent by the goddess Hera, who was jealous because during one of his many liaisons her husband Zeus had fathered Hercules. The snakes portrayed here probably also allude to antiwar Democrats, perjoratively called "Copperheads." The infant reclines on his customary lion's skin on a large rock. Above him perches an eagle, symbol of both Zeus and American might. Physical description: 1 print on laminate paper: mezzotint and intaglio ; plate 40.8 x 30.3 cm.

Notes: engraved by William Sartain.; Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1864-4.; Title from item.
Date
Source

Library of Congress

Author Popular Graphic Arts
Permission
(Reusing this file)

No known restrictions on publication.

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cph.3b37022.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

العربية ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ বাংলা ∙ čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ فارسی ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ עברית ∙ magyar ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ lietuvių ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenčina ∙ slovenščina ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ 中文 ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙ +/−

Other versions

  • jpg 8,364 × 10,884
    jpg
    8,364 × 10,884
  • tif 8,364 × 10,884
    tif
    8,364 × 10,884

Licensing

Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current13:33, 18 January 2019Thumbnail for version as of 13:33, 18 January 2019932 × 1,536 (124 KB)FæLOC upscale 388 × 640 → 932 × 1,536
15:24, 27 January 2018Thumbnail for version as of 15:24, 27 January 2018388 × 640 (28 KB)FæLibrary of Congress Popular Graphic Arts 1864 LCCN 2003689254 jpg #8219

The following page uses this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

Retrieved from "https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/File:Young_American_crushing_rebellion_and_sedition_LCCN2003689254.jpg"