Satire of an Anti-Federalist (ie. Democratic-Republican) Club reflecting the Federalists characterizations of the clubs as atheistic secret societies with a debased membership that promoted revolutionary action and mob rule. Possibly Thomas Jefferson, a founder and leader of the Democratic-Republicans, orates to club members including: a Citizen Genet, a supporter of Edmond Genet, the minister of the French Republic who promoted the principles of the French Revolution for America; naval hero and New York radical Commodore Livingston; Philadelphia astronomer David Rittenhouse peering through his telescope at a satire of the "Creed of the Democratic Party;" the devil; an obese drunkard damning the Federal Government; New York Governor DeWitt Clinton, and an African American man referred to by another member as "Citizen Mungo.", Title from item., Manuscript note on recto: This Caricature the work of an Artist of our own Country is presented to the Library Company by the friends of that Institution., Inscribed: Price one half dollar., LCP exhibition catalogue: Made in America #15., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date
August 16, 1793
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons -1793-1w [5760.F.6]
