"The Irrepressible Conflict," or the Republican Barque in Danger

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

"The Irrepressible Conflict," or the Republican Barque in Danger

Francis Preston Blair Jr.|James Watson Webb|Horace Greeley|Edward Bates|William H. Seward|Abraham Lincoln|Louis Maurer|Currier & Ives

Date
1860
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 9 5/8 × 16 5/8 in. (24.5 × 42.3 cm) Sheet: 11 15/16 × 17 1/8 in. (30.3 × 43.5 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
52.632.200
Credit line
Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1952

Artist information

American, 1821–1875|American, 1802–1884|American, 1811–1872|American, Goochland County, Virginia 1793–1869 St. Louis, Missouri|American, Florida, New York 1801–1872 Auburn, New York|American, Hardin County, Kentucky 1809–1865 Washington, D.C.|American (born Germany), Biebrich 1832–1932 New York|American, active New York, 1857–1907

Subjects and terms

  • Men
  • Boats
  • Politics
  • Satire

The Met object ID 850639. 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.