Get Thee Behind Me, (Mrs.) Satan!: I'd Rather Travel the Hardest Path of Matrimony than Follow Your Footsteps. (Original Illustration from Harper's Weekly 17 Feb 1872)

Thomas Nast

Harper's Weekly, 1872

[Suffragette & Feminist Iconography : Original Thomas Nash print of Victoria Claflin Woodhull.]  Near fine.  Victoria Claflin Woodhull was the first female stockbroker on Wallstreet; the first woman to run for President (under the Equal Rights Party), a traveling medical clairvoyant and a suffragette.  Woodhull divorced her husband in 1865 due to his drinking and adultery. "She became an advocate of the free love movement, which argued that individuals should be able to remain with romantic partners as long as they chose and then move on, rather than marry for life. The free love movement also sought to destigmatize divorce and make it easier for wives to leave abusive husbands." - National Woman's History Museum.  This print was featured in the Museum of the City of New York’s exhibition, "Rebel Women: Defying Victorianism" and the Smithsonian Magazine in an article about Victorian Women defying gender stereotypes. 

From the library of James Roe Ketchum, former White House and Senate Curator.  LOC 99614224.