Vanity Fair, Vol. 6, No. 150

A steel line engraving from this New York comic weekly depicts a figure titled "Out in the Cold," rendered in the fine cross-hatched style characteristic of Marshall's Household Engraving. The subject, identified as Clement L. Vallandigham, stands shivering in ragged wrappings against a winter landscape. Published during the Civil War by Phinney & Co., Vanity Fair combined political satire, comic verse, and elaborate steel engravings to lampoon Union-side figures and events. This heir to 19th-century satirical journalism employed line-block portraiture as its primary vehicle for topical humor and partisan commentary on the war and its personalities.