Making Our Nation: Constitutions and Related Documents. Sold to Benefit the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation. Part 2
Making Our Nation: Constitutions and Related Documents. Sold to Benefit the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation. Part 2
Political Cartoon: Eighteenth-century Revolutionary War Woodblock | Don't Tread on Me
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December 2, 07:05 PM GMT
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Political Cartoon: Eighteenth-century Revolutionary War Woodblock
"Don't Tread on Me." [American colonies, ca. 1775]
Original carved boxwood block (76 x 98 mm); accompanied by a modern impression of the block. Uniformly framed.
The present political cartoon, depicting a rattlesnake on a striped flag, symbolized the American Revolution as this serpent gave fair warning, but was deadly in its strike. Similar imagery and mottoes adorned several flags throughout the War.
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's New York, 26 June 2001, lot 152 (undesignated consignor)