Details
Creator Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, artist.
Contributor Currier & Ives, publisher.
Title The great Republican reform party, calling on their candidate. [graphic].
Publisher [New York] : [Currier & Ives], For sale at No. 2 Spruce St
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1856
Date [1856]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 35 x 46 cm (13.25 x 17.75 in.)
Description Cartoon lampooning the Republican Party's constituency of radicals and reformers who supported the first Republican presidential candidate, John C. Frémont, in 1856. In the right, Frémont receives his eclectic array of supporters and promises "You shall all have what you desire--and be sure that the glorious principles of popery, Fourier, ism, free love, womans rights, the Maine law, and above all the equality of our colored brethren, shall be maintained, if I get into the Presidential chair." In the left is a white man puritanical reformer calling for the prohibition of tobacco, meat, and alcohol; a white woman suffragist attired in bloomers, smoking a cigarette, and carrying a riding whip; a white man socialist, attired in worn and torn clothing and wanting “an equal division of property”; an older, white woman libertarian espousing free-love as a "Freemounter"; a white, Catholic priest promoting the Pope; and a racist caricature of an African American man, attired in a white collared, ruffled shirt, a black jacket with tails, black pants, and black shoes, carrying a cane who comments in the vernacular, "De poppylation ob color comes in first--arter dat, you may do wot you pleases."
Is referenced by Reilly, 1856-22
Weitenkampf, p. 117
Murrell, Graphic humour, vol. 1, p. 185
Nevins and Weitenkampf, A Century of political cartoons, p. 76
Notes Title from item.
Artist and publication information supplied by Weitenkampf.
Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Biographical / historical note Maurer was a French-born painter and lithographer who worked for several years with the New York lithographic firm, Currier & Ives.
Subject Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Bloomers.
Catholics -- United States.
Free love.
Presidential elections -- United States -- 1850-1860.
Racism in popular culture.
Social reformers -- United States.
Socialists -- United States.
Suffragists -- American.
Temperance -- United States.
Vegetarianism -- United States.
Women social reformers -- United States.
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Political cartoons -- 1850-1860.
Printer Currier & Ives, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political Cartoons - 1856-22 [5760.F.100]
Accession number 5760.F.100