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Irvin S. Cobb of Kentucky - Public domain portrait engraving

Irvin S. Cobb of Kentucky - Public domain portrait engraving

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Author and journalist Irvin S. Cobb appears in a bust-length caricature, framed within a circle. Wearing a coonskin cap and fringed frontier outfit, he smokes a cigar and holds a rifle. A small vignette below the portrait, enclosed in a cartouche, shows two men, presumably native Kentuckians, shaking hands.
Inscribed below image: United We Stand, Divided We Fall To.
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Signed, lower right: TONY / SARG / 16.
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Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.1457)
Published as illustration in: "The Glory of the States: Kentucky" / by Irvin S. Cobb. The American Magazine, May, 1916.

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01/01/1916
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Sarg, Tony, 1882-1942, artist
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Library of Congress
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