[POLITICS]. 2 prints featuring George McClellan, incl. How Columbia Receives McClellan's Salutation from the Chicago Platform. [New York: 1864].

7 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. broadside wood engraving.

"Columbia repudiates Democratic presidential candidate George Brinton McClellan's endorsement of the platform devised at the August 1864 Democratic convention in Chicago. The text below the picture provides the dialogue, descriptive notes, and identification of the main characters... Columbia: 'What a shame that a man who was educated at my expense, and whom I have since honored and petted, should have allowed himself to be allured by ambition into such company, and upon such a Platform! His Letter cannot conceal his real position, nor hide those odious 'planks;' neither can it reconcile me to his traitorous companions. I DISCARD BOTH HIM AND THEM FOREVER'." [Reilly]

Onlookers include the discredited James Buchanan, Fernando Wood, Horatio Seymour, Clement Vallandigham, Franklin Pierce, and other Copperheads.

OCLC locates 2 institutional copies. Reilly 1864-22. Weitenkampf 144.

[With:] Majr. Genl. George B. McClellan. General Chief of the US Army. [New York]: Currier & Ives, [late 1861 or 1862]. Broadside, 15 x 11 in. A three-quarter portrait of McClellan in blue uniform with gold trappings, facing right in image.

A rare Currier & Ives production, commemorating McClellan's elevation to General in Chief in late 1861. This appears to be a variation of Conningham 3906, almost identical but McClellan here has a buckled belt at his waist and faces the opposite direction.

RARE: Not located in Reilly, Library of Congress, or on OCLC.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

[POLITICS]. 2 prints featuring George McClellan, incl. How Columbia Receives McClellan's Salutation from the Chicago Platform. [New York: 1864].

[POLITICS]. 2 prints featuring George McClellan, incl. How Columbia Receives McClellan's Salutation from the Chicago Platform. [New York: 1864].