The modern Quixote and Squire Sancho [graphic] : The war of Ormuzd (Good) and Ahriman (Evil) in the 19th century

The modern Quixote and Squire Sancho [graphic] : The war of Ormuzd (Good) and Ahriman (Evil) in the 19th century

Hale, John P. (John Parker), 1806-1873 -- Caricatures and cartoons.

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878 -- Caricatures and cartoons.

United States. Navy

Corruption -- United States.

Don Quixote (Fictitious character) in art.

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

Cartoon parodying the windmill trope from Cervante’s Don Quixote to satirize the corruption in the department of the United States Navy during the Civil War. Depicts the head of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, atop a windmill comprised of a base inscribed with the names of Confederate forts and cities near strategic ports; three vanes shaped like ships; and a fourth vane adorned with a fox. It rests on a platform inscribed, "Navy Department 1861-5." A Don Quixote figure rides a horse labeled, "Charleston" and "April 1862" toward the windmill. He carries a shield inscribed "Wade and Davis Manifesto" (manifesto written by Republican Senators Benjamin Wade and Henry Winter Davis criticizing Lincoln’s misuse of the executive power in the management of the former Confederate states) and a lance adorned with a banner inscribed, "Board of Admiralty." Behind him, John P. Hale (i.e, Squire Sancho), dubious former Chariman of the Naval Committee sits on a donkey labeled, "U.S. Ex. Ex." He wears a hat labeled "All Hale," a jacket labeled, "Tricky. Navy Agencies," and carries several scrolls, inscribed, "Hunt," "Halifax," "Dover Powder," "Gough," "$300," and "$200." He complains of the need to drive "Welles & Fox (Assistant Secretary of the Navy) from the public treasury." In the background, an "Engineer & Lawyer" stands with his arms outstretched and labeled, "To the Navy Dept." while reeling off a list of naval projects.

Library Company of Philadelphia

[United States: s.n., 1866]

1866

1 print: lithograph; 32 x 51 cm.(12.75 x 20.5 in.)

political cartoons - 1866-4W [8217.F]