Beschreibung:

With Currier & Ives publication statement, 1863. With title and explanation: John Brown / Meeting the Slave Mother and her Child on the steps of Charlestown jail on his way to execution! The Artist has represented Capt. Brown regarding with a look of compassion, a Slave-mother and Child who obstructed the passage on his way to the Scaffold. Capt. Brown stooped and kissed the Child - then met his fate. Above his head is a flag, likely the Virginia state flag, with Sic Semper Tyrannis. ("Thus always to tyrants" - interestingly, also what John Wilkes Booth supposedly cried when he leapt from Lincoln's box to the theater stage, or at least what he recorded in his diary) Condition: With moderate toning, water stains covering about 1/4 of print in upper left with a few smaller spots along left edge.