Ornithology – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Ornithology, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Rather than a plain portrait, *Ornithology* sets Democrat Franklin Pierce and Whig general Winfield Scott, the two men who faced each other in the 1852 presidential race, under a title borrowed from the study of birds. The print is signed with the monogram of Edward Williams Clay, a Philadelphia caricaturist whose satirical lithographs were widely sold in the 1840s and 1850s, and it was published in New York by John Childs. Pierce won that November's election, so the print is a snapshot of a campaign whose outcome was not yet known. Its bird-themed title reflects how often American political cartoons of the period used animal comparisons to mock candidates.
| Created / published | N. York : Published by John Childs, 1852. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 29.3 x 37.0 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1850-1860.Political cartoons 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Published by John Childs, 84 Nassau St. N. York. Signed with monogram: EWC (Edward Williams Clay). Title appears as it is written on the item. Davison, no. 209. Weitenkampf, p. 109. 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 1852-19. |
| Subjects | Pierce, Franklin,--1804-1869. Scott, Winfield,--1786-1866. Presidential elections--United States--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,018 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110703 |
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