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Lewis Cass, Democratic candidate for president – Antique Wall Art

Lewis Cass, Democratic candidate for president, [New York] : Lith. & pub. by N[athaniel] Currier, 152 Nassau St., cor. of Spruce, N.Y., c1848. — antique lithograph
Lewis Cass, Democratic candidate for president, [New York] : Lith. & pub. by N[athaniel] Currier, 152 Nassau St., cor. of Spruce, N.Y., c1848.. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Step back in time with Lewis Cass, Democratic candidate for president, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Lewis Cass, Democratic candidate for president

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Lewis Cass appears here as the Democratic nominee for president, and the lithograph is one of the campaign portraits that New York printmaker Nathaniel Currier issued from his Nassau Street shop around 1848. The hand-applied watercolor was a common finish on Currier's inexpensive prints, which were sold to a mass market of voters. Cass, a former governor of Michigan Territory, U.S. senator, and Andrew Jackson's secretary of war, lost the 1848 election to the Whig candidate, Zachary Taylor. The print was deposited for copyright in August 1848, which fixes it within that campaign season.

Created / published[New York] : Lith. & pub. by N[athaniel] Currier, 152 Nassau St., cor. of Spruce, N.Y., c1848.
Medium1 print on wove paper : lithograph with watercolor ; image 24.8 x 31.7 cm.
GenrePortrait prints 1840-1850.Lithographs 1840-1850.
NotesTitle from item. The Library's impression of the print was deposited for copyright on August 12, 1848. DLC Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3752 Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1848-9.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,273 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-114155

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