Uncle Sam's pet pups! Or, Mother Bank's last refuge – Vintage 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 Uncle Sam's pet pups! Or, Mother Bank's last refuge in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Uncle Sam's pet pups! Or, Mother Bank's last refuge
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The title, "Uncle Sam's pet pups! Or, Mother Bank's last refuge," casts the Bank of the United States as a mother seeking shelter, a joke that drew on the bitter fight over the national bank. Andrew Jackson vetoed its recharter in 1832 and moved federal deposits into state banks, and the Panic of 1837 made the institution's troubles a political issue. Printed in 1840, a presidential election year, the sheet ties Jackson and William Henry Harrison to that dispute and shows how partisan prints used the bank question to attack Democrats. Its woodcut and letterpress format, colored by hand, was typical of inexpensive campaign prints sold to voters.
| Created / published | 1840 |
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| Medium | 1 print : woodcut and letterpress with watercolor, on wove paper ; 23.3 x 30.1 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Political cartoons 1840.Woodcuts 1840. |
| Notes | Sold at Elton's, 18 Division-Street, New-York. Title appears as it is written on the item. Weitenkampf, p. 68. Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress) Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1840-29. |
| Subjects | Harrison, William Henry,--1773-1841. Jackson, Andrew,--1767-1845. Bank of the United States--1840. Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,679 × 3,825 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220247 |
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