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Zachary Taylor, the people's choice for 12th president – Antique Wall Art

Zachary Taylor, the people's choice for 12th president, [New York] : Lith. & pub. by N[athaniel] Currier, 152 Nassau St., cor[ner] of Spruce, New York, c1848. — antique lithograph
Zachary Taylor, the people's choice for 12th president, [New York] : Lith. & pub. by N[athaniel] Currier, 152 Nassau St., cor[ner] of Spruce, New York, c1848.. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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A window into the past: Zachary Taylor, the people's choice for 12th president, preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Zachary Taylor, the Mexican War general nominated by the Whig Party for president in June 1848, appears here as a campaign figure rather than as a battlefield commander. Nathaniel Currier, the New York lithographer who later partnered with James Ives, published this sheet in New York around 1848, and the Library of Congress holds its copyright deposit of June 23, 1848, just two weeks after the Whig convention. The hand-applied watercolor was typical of Currier's campaign work, when quick, colored prints for a presidential race sold briskly.

Created / published[New York] : Lith. & pub. by N[athaniel] Currier, 152 Nassau St., cor[ner] of Spruce, New York, c1848.
Medium1 print on wove paper : lithograph with watercolor ; image 34.2 x 22.8 cm.
GenrePortrait prints 1840-1850.Lithographs 1840-1850.
NotesTitle from item. The Library's impression of the Taylor banner was deposited for copyright on June 23, 1848, two weeks after Taylor's nomination. DLC Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5312 Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1848-5.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,053 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-155786

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