| Creator |
Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, lithographer. |
| Contributor |
Robinson, Henry R., -1850, publisher. |
| Title |
All on hobbies, gee up, gee ho! [graphic] / C. |
| Publisher |
New York : Printed & pubd. by H.R. Robinson, 52 Courtlandt St |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1838 |
| Date |
1838 |
| Physical Description |
1 print : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 26 x 45 cm (10.25 x 18 in.) |
| Description |
Cartoon depicting the possible candidates for the presidential election of 1840, riding hobby horses symbolizing their issues.
President Van Buren leads the pack cheering on his "old hickory nag," "Sub Treasury," named after his financial program, which
allowed independent agencies to administer federal funds. Politicians following Van Buren include: bullionist Senator Thomas
Hart Benton on "Specie Currency," his "golden poney" which carries "more weight than any of them"; Senators Henry Clay and
Daniel Webster, leading opponents to Van Buren's fiscal policy, bickering over their shared horse named after the defunct
"United States Bank"; South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun riding his "consistent" horse "State Rights and Nullification";
1836 presidential nominee William Henry Harrison, attired in uniform, on his "Anti-Masonic" horse that keeps a "pretty easy
pace" but may "lose his wind" if another scandal like the abduction and murder of mason William Morgan does not occur; and
Congressman John Quincy Adams steering away from the group on his "Ebony" horse "Abolition."
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| Is referenced by |
Reilly, 1838-1 |
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Weitenkampf, p. 53 |
| Notes |
Title from item. |
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Date from copyright statement: Entd accordd to Act of Congress in the year 1838, by H.R. Robinson, in the Clerk's Office of
the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
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Artist's initial lower left corner. |
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Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited. |
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Described in Nancy Reynolds Davison's E.W. Clay: American political caricaturist of the Jacksonian era (PhD diss., The University
of Michigan, 1980), p. 205.
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Accessioned 1989. |
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Description revised 2021. |
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Access points revised 2021. |
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Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the
Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
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| Subject |
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Bank of the United States (1816-1836) |
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Abolition movement -- United States. |
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Antimasonic Party. |
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Antislavery movements -- United States. |
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Currency question -- United States. |
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Hobby horses. |
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Independent treasury. |
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Politicians -- United States. |
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Presidential elections -- United States -- 1840. |
| Genre |
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1830-1840. |
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Political cartoons -- Hand-colored -- 1830-1840. |
| Printer |
Robinson, Henry R., -1850, publisher. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| political cartoons - 1838-1 [P.9249.8] |
| Accession number |
P.9249.8 |
