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Ulysses S. Grant Caricature

Frank Henry Temple Bellew. [Ulysses S. Grant] Engraved by R. Schugg & Co. New York: Augustus P. Dunlop, 1872.

One in a series of prints from Fifth Avenue Journal, this portrait came with a group of twenty-eight portraits that we purchased from Frank Amari. These are relief prints, partially printed in color and hand colored. They incorporate aspects of portraiture and caricature. Bellew was born in India in 1828 and educated in England and France. He arrived in America in 1850 and specialized in work for comic journals and magazines.
Gift of Frank Amari.

- Georgia B. Barnhill, Andrew B. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts

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