The prairie dog sickened at the sting of the hornet or a diplomatic puppet exhibiting his deceptions
1 print on pale blue-grey laid paper : etching with watercolor ; 28.5 x 40.6 cm (sheet) | James Akin's earliest-known signed cartoon, "The Prairie Dog" is an anti-Jefferson satire, relating to Jefferson's covert negotiations for the purchase of West Florida from Spain in 1804. Jefferson, as a scrawny dog, is stung by a hornet with Napoleon's head into coughing up "Two Millions" in…
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Title devied by Library staff. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 483. Inscribed on verso: Augt. 2sd - 1808. Printed below image: "London : Pubd. as the Act directs Jany 1st 1786 by G. Bartolozzi". (DLC/PP-1995:140.483). Forms part of: John Rubens Smith Collection (Library of Congress).
Contributor:
Seymour, Samuel, Active - Seymour, Samuel - Birch, William Russell
Date:1805-01-01
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The water works, Centre Square, Philadelphia
1 print : etching ; 14 x 19 cm (plate), 22.2 x 29.4 cm (sheet) | Print shows an exterior view of the front entrance and the side facade of the pump house at Centre Square for the Philadelphia waterworks.
Contributor:
Beck, George - Cartwright, J., Active 1801 - Cartwright, J.
Date:1802-01-01
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General Washington
1 print : stipple engraving ; 11.5 x 8.5 cm (image), 18.6 x 12.5 cm (sheet), 26.9 x 19 cm (mount) | Print shows George Washington, bust portrait, facing right, wearing military uniform, in oval.
Contributor:
Chapman, J. (John), Active - Chapman, J. (John)
Contributor:
Dughet, Gaspard - Charles, William - West, Benjamin
Date:1809
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The ghost of a dollar or the bankers surprize
1 print on wove paper: etching ; plate 37.8 x 26.7 cm. | A caricature of Philadelphia merchant and financier Stephen Girard, here called "Stephen Graspall, Banker & Shaver." He stands behind a counter with a small slot in it, staring at an apparition of an 1806 Spanish dollar which hovers before him on the left. He says: "Surely my eyes do not deceive…
Photo, Print, DrawingBack of the State House, Philadelphia 1 print : engraving, hand-colored. | People in park; 4 Indians alone in group.
Photo, Print, DrawingSecond Street North from Market St. with Christ Church - Philadelphia 1 print : engraving, hand-colored. | Pedestrians; people seated in chairs in front of bldg.
Photo, Print, Drawing"Mongolia" "Manchuria" "China" "Korea" "Siberia", Trans-pacific line, Pacific Mail Steamship Co. 1 print : lithograph with tint plate ; sheet 92 x 122 cm. or less.
Photo, Print, DrawingNew York harbor from Staten Island 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 92 x 122 cm. or less.
Photo, Print, DrawingOld sport and handsome, for an explanation of this ludicrous incongruity 1 print : wood engraving ; sheet 92 x 122 cm. or less.
Photo, Print, DrawingEmisecularis sacerdotii Monumentum S.S. Leon[?] XIII P.M. 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 92 x 122 cm. or less.
Photo, Print, DrawingMinneapolis Brewing Cos., bock 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 92 x 122 cm. or less.
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe prairie dog sickened at the sting of the hornet or a diplomatic puppet exhibiting his deceptions 1 print on pale blue-grey laid paper : etching with watercolor ; 28.5 x 40.6 cm (sheet) | James Akin's earliest-known signed cartoon, "The Prairie Dog" is an anti-Jefferson satire, relating to Jefferson's covert negotiations for the purchase of West Florida from Spain in 1804. Jefferson, as a scrawny dog, is stung by a hornet with Napoleon's head into coughing up "Two Millions" in…
Photo, Print, DrawingChart of the world, on Mercator's projection. Illustrative of the impolicy of slavery 1 print : color. | Map showing sugar producing areas where slave labor is used, contrasted with sugar producing areas with which trade is restricted or prohibited because of high duties which protect the sugar of the slave economy.
Photo, Print, DrawingS.A.J. Madame la grande duchesse Catherine duchesse d'Oldenbourg 1 print : stipple engraving ; 26.5 x 21.1 cm (plate), 38 x 27.5 cm (sheet) | Print shows Catherine Duchess of Oldenburg, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, in oval.
Photo, Print, DrawingPanoramic view of St. Petersburg, dedicated by permission to his Imperial Majesty Alexander 1st. by his much obliged humble servant J.A. Atkinson 1 print : aquatint, color. | Harbor with boats and cultural buildings, including the Hermitage and the Marble and Winter Palaces.
Photo, Print, DrawingPanoramic view of St. Petersburg, dedicated by permission to his Imperial Majesty Alexander 1st. by his much obliged humble servant J.A. Atkinson 1 print : aquatint, color ; 44 x 80 cm. (plate). | Print showing panoramic view of St. Petersburg, including Academy of Arts, colleges, Cronstad (i.e., Kronshtadt), warehouses, and the Gottorp Globe.
Photo, Print, DrawingL'Amérique 1 print : stipple engraving, hand-colored ; 18.4 x 13 cm (plate), 24.6 x 19.4 cm (sheet) | Print shows a young Native American maiden, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing a fur and fabric robe, a feathered headdress, a quiver and bow; the early form of the allegorical figure representing "America".
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Sheet of ear studies] Title devied by Library staff. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 483. Inscribed on verso: Augt. 2sd - 1808. Printed below image: "London : Pubd. as the Act directs Jany 1st 1786 by G. Bartolozzi". (DLC/PP-1995:140.483). Forms part of: John Rubens Smith Collection (Library of Congress).
Photo, Print, DrawingSchuylkill Bridge, High Street, Philadelphia 1 print : engraving. | Print shows view of the Schuylkill Bridge with an inset showing the bridge covered.
Photo, Print, DrawingThe water works, Centre Square, Philadelphia 1 print : etching ; 14 x 19 cm (plate), 22.2 x 29.4 cm (sheet) | Print shows an exterior view of the front entrance and the side facade of the pump house at Centre Square for the Philadelphia waterworks.
Photo, Print, DrawingChemical philosophers of the present day Dr. Priestley : Lavoisier / 1 print : engraving ; plate mark 460 x 320 mm. | Print shows head-and-shoulders portraits of Joseph Priestley in oval, held by an eagle, and Antoine Laurent Lavoisier in oval, topped with a ribbon and garland.
Photo, Print, DrawingGeorge Town and Federal City, or City of Washington 1 print : aquatint ; 45.3 x 58 cm (sheet, trimmed) | Cart on road overlooking Potomac River.
Photo, Print, DrawingGreat Falls of the Potomac 1 print : aquatint, hand-colored.
Photo, Print, DrawingGeneral Washington 1 print : stipple engraving ; 11.5 x 8.5 cm (image), 18.6 x 12.5 cm (sheet), 26.9 x 19 cm (mount) | Print shows George Washington, bust portrait, facing right, wearing military uniform, in oval.
Photo, Print, DrawingDrawing, plate 8 from an original drawing by Gaspar Poussin in the collection of Benjamin West Esqr. P.R.A. 1 print : lithograph, tinted with blue wash and opaque white ; 24.4 x 16.6 cm (sheet) | Print shows a man sitting on rocks of a cliff with waterfalls in a wilderness landscape.
Photo, Print, DrawingDrawing, plate 9 from an original drawing by Gaspar Poussin in the collection of Benjamin West Esqr. P.R.A.
Photo, Print, DrawingThe ghost of a dollar or the bankers surprize 1 print on wove paper: etching ; plate 37.8 x 26.7 cm. | A caricature of Philadelphia merchant and financier Stephen Girard, here called "Stephen Graspall, Banker & Shaver." He stands behind a counter with a small slot in it, staring at an apparition of an 1806 Spanish dollar which hovers before him on the left. He says: "Surely my eyes do not deceive…