Civil War Print - Seated Liberty - Patriotic and Delightfully Semi Nude - from the exhibit ZOUAVES, DEVILS & SASS at The Grand Review

Civil War Print - Seated Liberty - Patriotic and Delightfully Semi Nude - from the exhibit ZOUAVES, DEVILS & SASS at The Grand ReviewFrom the exhibit ZOUAVES, DEVILS & SASS, Political Passions & The Printed Envelope During The American Civil War. Print size 24 x 18, and consciously formatted to work with a standard size store bought frame, or custom framed as you see fit. We originally began work on this exhibit more than a decade ago with the acquisition of the Yours Til Death devil image and the Oh, Let Me Alone skull and crossbones. Then there was a period of casual collecting

From the exhibit ZOUAVES, DEVILS & SASS, Political Passions & The Printed Envelope During The American Civil War.

Print size 24 x 18, and consciously formatted to work with a standard size store bought frame, or custom framed as you see fit.

We originally began work on this exhibit more than a decade ago with the acquisition of the Yours Til Death devil image and the Oh, Let Me Alone skull and crossbones. Then there was a period of casual collecting and digital restoration, then a more serious period of more determined collecting and negotiations with other collectors to access some images we did not own.

Over the years we also collected some Civil War envelopes that were not strong enough artistically to include in the restored and enlarged print form, but we knew we would display them in showcases with those we did put through our process. As we prepared the display of tiny originals in the showcases the other day with strong and less strong examples shown together, three envelopes reappeared that we'd acquired some time back, set aside during a time of transition, and forgotten about.

I am happy to present this as one of those three that stepped strongly out of a modest pile of also rans.

Here we have a seated Liberty seemingly very comfortable and refreshingly at liberty with her natural self, even though a flapping bald eagle looks like it's about to snatch a june bug off her Phrygian cap staff, just under her pinky. The Phrygian cap, that French cap of liberty, so common in our early American patriotic iconography when we still loved and honored France. They went all in, economically and with troops and material to help us win our Revolutionary War, and that help was and is well documented and acknowledged as essential to that victory. Next time you encounter someone who seems to be in 'freedom fries' mode, remind them that 'real Americans' aren't 'real colonial British subjects' in large part thanks to the Frenchies.

Just sayin'...

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