Cartoon Prints, American

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Tag	i1	i2	code	text
001				2008661348
003				DLC
005				20090122161958.0
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010			a	2008661348
035			a	(DLC)app1994000085/PP
035			a	(DLC)15594707
037			a	LC-USZ62-89590
			b	DLC
			c	(b&w film copy neg.)
040			a	DLC
			c	DLC
			e	gihc
050	0	0	a	PC/US - 1840.A000,
	0	0	b	no. 10
245	0	4	a	The forty thieves or the common scoundrels of New-York
	0	4	h	[graphic].
260			c	1840.
300			a	1 print :
			b	lithograph on wove paper ;
			c	27.6 x 37.6 cm. (image)
500			a	For sale at 124 Nassau St. N.Y.
500			a	Probably drawn by John L. Magee.
500			a	Title appears as it is written on the item.
510	4		a	Murrell,
	4		c	p. 162, 164.
510	4		a	Weitenkampf,
	4		c	p. 68-69.
520	0		a	The title continues: "Breaking up of a Grand Spree in the Tea Room & total abflustification of the common scoundrels." Weitenkampf calls the print a satirical look at members of the New York Common Council "after a spree of eating and drinking," and cites two others by Elton. The artist also suggests corruption in that Tammany-controlled civic body, a center of Democratic power in 1840. It is a crowded scene of drunken merriment. In the foreground are several comical figures in various attitudes, including a reeling heavy-set man who says, "I'm affraid I've not done me juty to me w-a-r-d this evening, let me see what I've had: three Oyster stews . . . " He leans on a smaller man who says, "Don't make yourself uneasy Sir, if you havent done your duty on this occassion, I would like to see the man who has & if there is such a man all I want is his Daguerreotype Likeness to hang on the inside of my shirt to remember him by . . ." (Daguerreotypes were first introduced in 1839, and portrait studios had opened in several major cities in the United States by early 1840.) On the right two others converse. One, with a bulbous red nose, lifts his glass aloft. The second holds a bag marked "40,000." The first says, "Ah! that's the talk! let me see with that amount of stuff, I can cut out forty pairs of pantaloons with a thousand sets of trimmings for each man, o yes Sir depend on it, the documents shall be forthcoming!" The second, "Here is the Stuff for pantaloons & I hope now you will put that matter through & let me have the contract without delay." In the middle ground left a black manservant holds a tray of cups before the open door to a "Tea Room."
540			a	No known restrictions on publication.
580			a	Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
581			a	Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1840-1.
610	2	4	a	Tammany Hall
	2	4	y	1840.
650		7	a	Political elections
		7	y	1840.
		7	2	lctgm
651		4	a	New York (N.Y.)
		4	y	1840.
653			a	Armstrong.
655		7	a	Lithographs
		7	y	1840.
		7	2	gmgpc
655		7	a	Political cartoons
		7	y	1840.
		7	2	gmgpc
700	1		a	Magee, John L.
773	0		t	American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
	0		w	(DLC) 2005680400
852			a	Library of Congress
			b	Prints and Photographs Division
			e	Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
			n	dcu
			u	http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
856	4	1	3	digital file from b&w film copy neg.
	4	1	d	cph
	4	1	f	3b35961
	4	1	q	p
	4	1	u	http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b35961
906			a	7
			b	cbc
			c	orignew
			d	u
			e	ncip
			f	20
			g	y-printpho
985			a	pp/pcus
985			a	pp/app
985			e	pp/minload
985			a	pp/diof
991			b	c-P&P
			h	PC/US - 1840.A000,
			i	no. 10
			m	(A size)
			o	ppsd
			v	obj.

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