A captivating and very rare satire of the presidential campaign of 1844, employing the popular metaphor of “Up Salt River” to denote political peril or defeat. Whig nominee Henry Clay and his running mate Theodore Frelinghuysen, in their boat Tariff, lead the other candidates in the race up Salt River.....
An iconic satire of a gold-hunter, published at the height of the California Gold Rush. This scarce print depicts a prospective gold miner as an inappropriately well-dressed man in a knee-length coat, absurdly laden with mining tools, cookware, knives, and food as he walks overland to California along a body.....
A rare and anonymously-produced political cartoon attacking Henry Clay's duplicitous position on slavery, the issue that was at the fulcrum of so many political, moral, and legal conflicts in antebellum America. Clay, at the time a Senator from Kentucky and one of the country's most popular politicians, grew infamous.....
![Item #6515 The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Ame[rican]=Stamp. After Benjamin Wilson](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6515_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1615566664)
Important and scarce political cartoon lampooning the repeal of the Stamp Act under the administration of George Grenville, Prime Minister from 1763 to 1765. “One of the most famous and popular political satires commenting on the Stamp Act”. (Dolmetsch) Background As Prime Minster, George Grenville (1712-1770) was faced with restoring.....
A marvelous War of 1812 satire by Philadelphia printmaker and caricaturist William Charles, showing the defenders of Baltimore driving off a superior number of British soldiers near Fort McHenry. Three battling Baltimoreans appear on the left, one of whom has punctured the now bleeding behind of John Bull with a......
A delightful volume of trial drawings, many of them satirical, for an illustrated alphabet featuring a variety of humorous and imaginative characters complimenting Johnston’s limericks. The volume begins with two calligraphic frontispieces, one consisting of the phrase “The Envelope” graced by an angelic figure holding a brush and canvas (apparently.....