Collection Items
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Photo, Print, DrawingWhy dont you take it? 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 25 x 40 cm. (image) | In February 1861 Washington was alarmed by rumors that secessionists planned to seize the city and make it the capital of the Confederacy. The print may have been produced in that context, or during Lincoln's call to arms and rather anxious military build-up of the capital in April. Here, General…- Contributor: Beard, Frank T. - Vent, Starr & Co.
- Date: 1861-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingLeaders of the Democratic Party : The rioter Seymour ... The butcher Forrest ... The pirate Semmes ... The hangman Hampton ... A searing, election-year indictment of four prominent figures in the Democratic party, three of them former Confederate officers. Former New York governor and Democratic presidential nominee Horatio Seymour is portrayed as a "rioter." Standing in a burning city, he waves his hat in the air while he steps on the back of a crawling figure. In the background a corpse hangs from a lamppost.…- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Nast, Thomas
- Date: 1868
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Photo, Print, DrawingJohn Brown exhibiting his hangman 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 32.2 x 21.4 cm. (image) | Northern rejoicing at the end of the Civil War often took the form of vengeful if imaginary portrayals of the execution of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Here abolitionist martyr John Brown rises from the grave to confront Davis, although in actuality the latter had nothing to do with Brown's 1859…- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) Dlc - Querner, G. - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1865-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe true peace commissioners : Sheridan. Grant. Lee. Davis. Farragut. Sherman An angered response to false Confederate peace overtures and to the push for reconciliation with the South advanced by the Peace Democrats in 1864. (See also "The Sportsman Upset by the Recoil of His Own Gun," no. 1864-32.) Confederate general Robert E. Lee and president Jefferson Davis (center) stand back-to-back trying to ward off an attack by Northern officers (from left to right) Philip…- Contributor: Currier & Ives - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) Dlc - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Cameron, John
- Date: 1864
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Photo, Print, DrawingThis plate is respectfully dedicated to all the butchers in the United States by their obt. Sert. Chrr. Wispart. in honour of our Republican Governor Simon Snyder 1 print : etching, on pale green laid paper ; 29.9 x 43.1 cm. (sheet, trimmed to within platemark) | A procession of butchers led by two Negro fiddlers, and featuring a large bull. On the ground before the bull are a cleaver, saw, and other butcher tools. The print is dedicated to Pennsylvania's recently elected Republican Governor Simon Snyder. Snyder was born in…- Contributor: Folwell, Samuel
- Date: 1808-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingDemocracy against the unnatural union. Trial Octr. 14th 1817. 1 print : etching with red wash on wove paper ; plate 35.2 x 25 cm. | second colored impression 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate 35.5 x 25 cm, on sheet 46 x 29 cm. | b&w impression 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate 35.2 x 25 cm, on sheet 38 x 26.7 cm. | A satire on the…- Contributor: Charles, William - Charles, William,, Artist (Attributed Name)
- Date: 1817-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingParody. 605,000 sour grapes 1 print : woodcut with letterpress on wove paper ; 36.4 x 15.3 cm. (image) | An illustrated broadside pertaining to the controversy surrounding settlement of the State of New York's War of 1812 financial claims against former governor Daniel D. Tompkins. It was established that the ex-governor was indebted to the state to the sum of $120,000, but a disupte arose between Tompkins…- Date: 1820-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingA caucus held at Albany on sunday evening April 11th. 1824 by the N.Y. city members 1 print : etching on wove paper. | A satire condemning the duplicity and conspiracy of the "Bucktail" faction of New York Democrats in their April 1824 ouster of New York's ex-governor DeWitt Clinton from his post as canal commissioner. The Library's impression of the print has the missing letters in the names of the figures filled in by hand. Twelve men stand in…- Date: 1824-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingA foot-race 1 print : etching on wove paper ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm. (sheet) | A figurative portrayal of the presidential race of 1824. A crowd of cheering citizens watch as candidates (left to right) John Quincy Adams, William Crawford, and Andrew Jackson stride toward the finish. Henry Clay has dropped from the race and stands, hand on head, on the far right saying, "D--n…- Contributor: Johnston, David Claypoole
- Date: 1824-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe pedlar and his pack or the Desperate effort, an over balance 1 print : etching and aquatint, with watercolor on wove paper ; plate 24.8 x 36.4 cm. | 2nd impression 1 print : etching and aquatint, with watercolor on wove paper ; plate 24.8 x 36.4 cm, sheet 29.1 x 45.5 cm. | A satire on the reverse impact of John Binns's anti-Jackson "coffin handbill" campaign during the presidential race of 1828. Editor-publisher Binns…- Contributor: Akin, James
- Date: 1828-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe nations bulwark. A well disciplined militia 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper ; 27.3 x 43.6 cm. (plate) | A satire on the Philadelphia militia, the first and apparently only number issued in a projected series of "Sketches of Character" by Edward Williams Clay. In the center an officer reviews a disorderly line of soldiers, some of them uniformed, standing at varying degrees of attention. In the…- Contributor: Clay, Edward Williams - Hobson, R. H., Active - Hobson, R. H.
- Date: 1829-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingUnited States slave trade, 1830 1 print : engraving on wove paper ; 10 x 17 cm (plate) + 1 page of letterpress text. | An abolitionist print possibly engraved in 1830, but undocumented aside from the letterpress text which appears on an accompanying sheet. The text reads: "United States' slave trade, 1830. The Copper Plate from which the above picture has just been engraved, was found many years…- Date: 1830-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe rats leaving a falling house 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 28.3 x 18.8 cm. (image) | A simpler and less animated composition on the same general idea as Edward W. Clay's ".00001" (no. 1831-1). Again Jackson is seated in a collapsing chair, with the "Altar of Reform" toppling next to him, and rats scurrying at his feet. The rats are (left to right): Secretary of War…- Date: 1831-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing.00001 the value of a unit with four cyphers going before it 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 29.2 x 22.2 cm. (image) | A satire on dissension and political intrigue within Andrew Jackson's administration, surrounding the Spring 1831 resignations of several members of his Cabinet. In the center Jackson sits in a collapsing chair, labeled "The Hickory Chair is coming to pieces at last." Seated on the arm of his chair is a…- Contributor: Clay, Edward Williams
- Date: 1831-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingMuch ado about nothing or a militia court-martial!! 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 24 x 27.7 cm. (image) | A satire on the pretensions and general decadence of the American local militia during the Jacksonian era. A man on a witness stand (far left) is questioned by a court-martial. Several officers sit around a table, some talking, others dozing. On the wall behind the table is a large clock,…- Contributor: Johnston, David Claypoole
- Date: 1832-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingChevy Chase or the bank runner (how Burrows ran on the 1st of Novr. & S_L followed, and how Burrows distanced him & almost escaped a whipping) 1 print : lithograph.- Contributor: Kelly, William
- Date: 1832-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingOld Jack, the famous New Orleans mouser, clearing Uncle Sam's barn of bank and Clay rats; ... 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 23.9 x 32.8 cm. (image) | A rare pro-Jackson satire on the President's campaign to destroy the political power and influence of the Bank of the United States. It was probably issued late in the presidential campaign of 1832, after Jackson's July veto of the bill to re-charter the Bank. (Weitenkampf tentatively dated the print 1833,…- Contributor: Williams, Michael
- Date: 1832-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing"This is the house that Jack built . . ." 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 33.3 x 47.6 cm. (sheet, trimmed almost to border). | Caricature shows Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Francis Blair, William J. Duane, and others, with various animals. A crudely-drawn, anonymous satire on the Jackson Administration, alleging political intrigue behind Jackson's September 1833 decision to remove federal deposits from the Bank of the United States. The cartoon…- Date: 1833-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingA very bad man 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 24.5 x 31.8 cm. (image) | The first of two prints formerly thought to be anti-Jackson satires, but actually dealing with the sensational trial of Methodist minister Ephraim K. Avery in May 1833 for the murder of Sarah Maria Cornell. (See also "A Minister Extraordinary...," no. 1833-14). Miss Cornell, a young and pregnant factory girl, was…- Contributor: Robinson, Henry R.
- Date: 1833-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingTroubled treasures 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 23.2 x 32.9 cm. (image) | A crudely drawn anti-Jackson satire, applauding Henry Clay's orchestration of Congressional resistance to the President's plan to withdraw Treasury funds from the Bank of the United States. The print also attacks Vice-President Van Buren's purported manipulation of administration fiscal policy. The title continues, "Shewing the Beneficial Effects of Clay &…- Contributor: Bisbee, R.
- Date: 1833-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe grand national caravan moving east. 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; image and text 23 x 33 cm, sheet 27 x 42 cm. | A burlesque parade, led by Andrew Jackson and satirizing various aspects of his administration. The procession moves from right to left. At its head is Jackson, seated on a horse with Martin Van Buren cross-legged behind him. Next is a devil playing a…- Contributor: Bufford, John Henry - Johnston, David Claypoole,, Artist (Attributed Name) - Bufford, John Henry,, Printer (Attributed Name) - Johnston, David Claypoole - Endicott & Swett - Straightshanks, Hassan
- Date: 1833-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingGrand fantastical parade, New-York, Dec 2d. 1833 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 33.3 x 50 cm. (image) | Another burlesque parade (see no. 1833-11), satirizing Andrew Jackson as a military hero and President and the local militia displays of the period. The print apparently portrays one of the mock processions actually held in New York during the 1830s. A motley array of characters, some of them on horseback…- Contributor: Endicott & Swett - Straightshanks, Hassan
- Date: 1833-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing"Let every one take care of himself" (As the Jack ass said when he was dancing among the chickens) 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 28.1 x 39.5 cm. (image) | A satire attacking Andrew Jackson's plan to distribute treasury funds, formerly kept in the Bank of the United States, among "branch banks" in various states. The artist also alleges Vice-President Van Buren's manipulation of administration fiscal policy. Jackson appears as a jack-ass "dancing among the Chickens" (the branch banks) to…- Contributor: Imbert, Anthony
- Date: 1833-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe experiment in full operation 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 32 x 43.1 cm. (image) | An anti-Jackson satire, critical of the President's federal treasury policy and of Vice-President Van Buren's influence on the administration's fiscal program. The print specifically attacks Jackson's plan to discontinue federal deposits in the Bank of the United States, and his "experiment" of placing them in selected state banks instead. The…- Contributor: Imbert, Anthony
- Date: 1833-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe doctors puzzled or the desperate case of Mother U.S. Bank 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 28 x 39.2 cm. (image) | A satire directed against the United States Bank, showing the impact of Jackson's September 1833 order for the withdrawal of federal funds from the Bank and their distribution among state banks. In a bedchamber the Bank, portrayed as an obese woman, lies in bed vomiting coins "Deposites [sic]" into a…- Contributor: Imbert, Anthony
- Date: 1833-01-01