The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jeff Davis on His Own Platform, or the Last "Act of Secession"

Alexander Hamilton Stephens|Jefferson Davis|Robert Toombs|General P. G. T. Beauregard|Francis Wilkinson Pickens|Currier & Ives

1861–62

Attribution

| | | | |Probably published by Alexander Hamilton Stephens|Jefferson Davis|Robert Toombs|General P. G. T. Beauregard|Francis Wilkinson Pickens|Currier & Ives | | | | | American, 1812–1883|American, Fairview, Kentucky 1808–1889 New Orleans, Louisiana|American, 1810–1885|American, 1818–1893|American, 1805–1869|American, active New York, 1857–1907

Medium

Lithograph

Physical dimensions

Image: 11 13/16 × 11 7/16 in. (30 × 29 cm) Sheet: 17 15/16 × 13 3/8 in. (45.5 × 34 cm)

Credit line

Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1952