Title: A Startling Announcement
Object type: Print
Date: 1862
Artist:  Currier & Ives 
Artist bio: American, active New York, 1857–1907
Artist nationality: American
Artist role: Publisher
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: Image: 9 3/16 × 15 3/8 in. (23.3 × 39 cm)
Sheet: 13 7/16 × 18 1/8 in. (34.1 × 46 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of  A. S. Colgate, 1952
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Satire, term: American Civil War, term: Beds, term: Politics