Great speech of Clay -- bran bread is riz!!! – Antique Print
(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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A window into the past: Great speech of Clay -- bran bread is riz!!!, preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Its title, "Great speech of Clay -- bran bread is riz!!!", uses mock-phonetic spelling to ridicule a speech by Henry Clay, the Kentucky statesman and longtime Whig leader. James Baillie published the lithograph in New York in 1847, and it was probably drawn by John L. Magee. The named subjects include Horace Greeley of the *New York Tribune*, abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, and newspaperman J. Watson Webb, which points to the sharp press rivalries and the divisive debate over the Mexican War that defined the period.
| Created / published | N.Y. : Lith. & published by James Baillie, 1847. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 30 x 38.9 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1840-1850.Political cartoons 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Entered . . . 1847 by J. Baillie. Lith. & published by James Baillie, 87th. Str. near 3d. Avenue, N.Y. Probably drawn by John L. Magee. The Library's copy of the print was deposited for copyright on November 29, 1847. Title appears as it is written on the item. 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 1847-5. |
| Subjects | Clay, Henry,--1777-1852. Clay, Henry,--1811-1847. Garrison, William Lloyd,--1805-1879. Greeley, Horace,--1811-1872. Webb, J. Watson. (James Watson),--1802-1884. New York tribune--1840-1850. Mexican War, 1846-1848. Kentucky--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,071 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109469 |
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