Grand National Whig banner. Onward"" – Antique Print
![Grand National Whig banner. Onward"", [New York] : Lith & Pub. by N[athaniel] Currier, 2 Spruce St. N.Y., c1844. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/19/19f5d0147bfa-L.webp)
(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 antique lithograph captures Grand National Whig banner. Onward"" in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Watercolor was added by hand to this Currier lithograph of a Grand National Whig banner, which carries the motto "Onward." Nathaniel Currier's New York shop issued many campaign pictures, and this one was deposited for copyright in April 1844, months before the presidential election between Whig nominee Henry Clay and Democrat James K. Polk. Whig rallies that year relied on large banners, parades, and printed emblems to rally voters, so the print shows how the party sought to present itself to the public. Standard catalogues of Currier's work and of American political prints list it, which helps researchers date and place it.
| Created / published | [New York] : Lith & Pub. by N[athaniel] Currier, 2 Spruce St. N.Y., c1844. |
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| Medium | 1 print on wove paper : lithograph with watercolor ; image 32.3 x 24.4 cm. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1840-1850.Lithographs 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Title from item. The Library's impression was deposited for copyright on April 10, 1844. DLC Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2734 Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1844-12. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,145 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114157 |
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