President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House / Robert Cruikshank fect. – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic print captures President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House / Robert Cruikshank fect. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House / Robert Cruikshank fect.
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Unlike most views of the White House, this aquatint focuses on the crowd, showing the open reception that followed Andrew Jackson's inauguration in March 1829. Jackson's supporters, many of them farmers and working people from outside Washington's social circles, poured into the executive mansion, and contemporary accounts describe muddy boots, broken glassware, and punch bowls set out on the lawn to draw the crowd back outside. Robert Cruikshank, a London caricaturist, treated the scene as satire of American democracy, and the print was issued by Saunders and Otley in London in 1841.
| Created / published | London : Saunders and Otley, 1841. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : aquatint, color. |
| Genre | Frontispieces Color 1840-1850.Book illustrations Color 1840-1850.Aquatints Color 1840-1850. |
| Subjects | Jackson, Andrew,--1767-1845--Inauguration, 1829. White House (Washington, D.C.)--1820-1830. Crowds--Washington (D.C.)--1820-1830. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,280 × 1,028 px · prints to 4 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109607 |
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