Liberty our aim! Washington our example!
1 print on grey wove paper : wood engraving with letterpress ; image 38 x 39.4 cm. | Emblematic design, probably for a kerchief, expressing American support for liberal nationalist movements in Europe. Includes bust-length portraits of Louis Kossuth, Giuseppe Mazzini, and George Washington.
Marion crossing the Pedee
1 print : engraving. | Print shows Francis Marion "the Swamp Fox" and his band of irregulars in boats preparing to cross the Pedee River.
Contributor:
Ranney, William - Burt, Charles Kennedy
Date:1852-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
The seven stages of the office seeker
1 print on wove paper : lithograph printed in black and yellow/buff ; image 37.6 x 42.8 cm. | A satire on patronage and corruption in New York State politics, based on the medieval theme, perpetuated in American folk art, of the "life and ages of man." Here the seven stages are illustrated as key points in the life and career of a political…
Contributor:
Clay, Edward Williams - Childs, J. (John)
Date:1852-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
Eva and Topsy
1 print : lithograph, color. | Print show Eva and Topsy seated on floor.
Contributor:
Corbaux, Louisa
Date:1852
Photo, Print, Drawing
A bad egg. Fuss and feathers
1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 42 x 28 cm. | Whig presidential candidate Winfield Scott is pictured as a fighting cock with human attributes. The cock wears fringed military epaulets, a sword, spurs, and a plumed hat. He is just emerged from an egg marked, "Free Soil Egg hatched at Baltimore June 21st. 1852" (the date of Scott's nomination), which…
[The birth place of Genl. Frank Pierce, Hillsboro New Hampshire]
1 print : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 18.7 x 28.9 cm, on card mount 27.7 x 35.5 cm. | Print shows an exterior view of Franklin Pierce's home in Hillsboro, New Hampshire, from an oblique angle showing the front and side with fenced-in front yard, large trees, outbuildings in the background, and a couple walking along the roadway.
Contributor:
N. Currier (Firm)
Date:1852-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
The birth place of Genl. Frank Pierce, Hillsboro New Hampshire
1 print : lithograph ; sheet 33.9 x 43.1 cm. | Print shows an exterior view of Franklin Pierce's home in Hillsboro, New Hampshire, from an oblique angle showing the front and side with fenced-in front yard, large trees, outbuildings in the background, and a couple walking along the roadway.
A contested seat
1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 27.8 x 38.2 cm. | The artist anticipates a Whig victory in the 1852 presidential contest. The scene takes place in an interior, carpeted or tiled with a grid-and-star pattern. At left, Whig candidate Winfield Scott, in military uniform, pulls the "Presidential Chair" out from under Democratic nominee Franklin Pierce (also in military dress). Pierce,…