General Jackson slaying the many headed monster – Historic Reproduction
(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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General Jackson slaying the many headed monster
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Rather than a plain portrait, this lithograph casts Andrew Jackson as a mythic slayer battling a many-headed monster, a hydra-style image aimed at the Bank of the United States. The record names Nicholas Biddle, the bank's president, along with Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams and Martin Van Buren, which suggests the monster's heads stand for the bank's political allies and rivals. H. R. Robinson issued the print in New York in 1836, while Jackson's fight over the bank's federal charter was still shaping national politics. Cartoons like this one were a popular way for voters to follow those partisan battles.
| Created / published | N.Y. : Printed & publd. by H.R. Robinson, 1836. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 30.2 x 36.5 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1830-1840.Political cartoons 1830-1840. |
| Notes | Printed & publd. by H.R. Robinson, 52 Cortlandt St. N.Y. Title appears as it is written on the item. Weitenkampf cites another version of the print issued by Robinson with the date 1836, and suggests that the present version is a reversed copy of that. One print with this title was registered for copyright by Robinson on March 29, 1836. Weitenkampf, p. 39-40. 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 1836-7. |
| Subjects | Adams, John Quincy,--1767-1848. Biddle, Nicholas,--1786-1844. Clay, Henry,--1777-1852.--Political activity. Jackson, Andrew,--1767-1845. Van Buren, Martin,--1782-1862. Bank of Pennsylvania--1830-1840. Bank of the United States--1830-1840. Pennsylvania--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109552 |
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