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"The Impending Crisis" – Or Caught in the Act

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

"The Impending Crisis" – Or Caught in the Act

James Watson Webb|William H. Seward|Henry Jarvis Raymond|Louis Maurer|Horace Greeley|Currier & Ives

Date
1860
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 9 13/16 × 15 3/16 in. (25 × 38.5 cm) Sheet: 13 3/8 × 17 9/16 in. (34 × 44.6 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
52.632.199
Credit line
Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1952
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

American, 1802–1884|American, Florida, New York 1801–1872 Auburn, New York|American, 1820–1869|American (born Germany), Biebrich 1832–1932 New York|American, 1811–1872|American, active New York, 1857–1907

Subjects and terms

  • Satire
  • Politics
  • Men

The Met object ID 850638. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.