Caption title.
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1862 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "114" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image at lower right; lettered "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre Paris" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; the separate issue, without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 39 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Print shows a well dressed man with a monocle addressing a Black man who stands at left, hold an enormous bottle of ink (labeled "Bouteille a encre") upside down and pouring its contents on the ground between them as American soldiers engage in battle in the background.