Shadows of the Times,American Civil War,Peter Kramer,c1862,Napolean III,Columbia

Title: Shadows of the times. Pl. 1 / P. Kramer, del.
Creator(s): Kramer, Peter, 1823-1907, artist
Related Names:
Muringer, Caspar , P. Kramer & C. Muringer, 253 North 8th St., Philada., c1862. European intervention in American Civil War. The cartoon consists of two shadow-play tableaux. In the first, Queen Victoria (right) makes a menacing gesture toward the American shore while holding onto the mane of a raging British lion. An Irishman plays a bagpipe, as the queen holds out her scepter and threatens, 'I will sink your Ships and burn your Factories. they are a perfect nuisance.' Across the ocean the figure of Columbia stands on a globe rising out of the sea. Britannia, Columbia's response to Britannia is a defiant, Emperor Napoleon III of France, possibly Prussian commander Otto von Bismarck, island of St. Helena, saying, 'General, St Helena is not forgotten.' Bismarck stands before a painting of Emperor Frederick the Great leading his army. 1862, by P. Kramer & C. Muringer ...'
The Library's impression deposited on February 8, 1862.
The print is one in a series entitled Shadows of the Times published by Kramer and Muringer.
Weitenkampf, p. 136
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1862-3.
Subjects:
Bismarck, Otto von.
Columbia.
France, and American Civil War.
Great Britain, and the Confederacy.
Ireland.
Napoleon III.
Victoria, queen of England.
Lithographs--1860-1870.
Political cartoons--1860-1870
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