The
great Republican reform party, calling on their candidate
Maurer, Louis
1832-1932
artist
Currier & Ives
publisher
Currier & Ives
publisher
still image
Graphic
Lithographs -- 1850-1860
Political cartoons -- 1850-1860
nyu
New York]
N.Y. New York
[Currier & Ives], For sale at No. 2 Spruce St
[1856]
1856
monographic
eng
1 print : lithograph ; sheet 35 x 46 cm (13.25 x 17.75 in.)
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."
Title from item.
Artist and publication information supplied by Weitenkampf.
Maurer was a French-born painter and lithographer who worked for several years with the New York lithographic firm, Currier & Ives.
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
5760.F.100
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Political Cartoons - 1856-22 [5760.F.100]
Reilly,
1856-22
Weitenkampf,
p. 117
Murrell, Graphic humour,
vol. 1, p. 185
Nevins and Weitenkampf, A Century of political cartoons,
p. 76
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