The gladiators of the Senate! The bulley's of the House – Antique Print
![The gladiators of the Senate! The bulley's of the House, [New York] ; [1852?] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/64/644dc623b04d-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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The gladiators of the Senate! The bulley's of the House. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The gladiators of the Senate! The bulley's of the House
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Its title, "The gladiators of the Senate! The bulley's of the House," casts the men of Congress as combatants, and the cartoon's spelling of "bullies" is kept as printed. The record names Lewis Cass, a Northern Democrat, alongside Southern figures such as Robert Barnwell Rhett, Albert Gallatin Brown, and Jeremiah Clemens. The print is probably from about 1852, when fights over slavery and the Compromise of 1850 made both chambers of Congress sharply divided, and New York publishers were producing many such caricatures to comment on those quarrels.
| Created / published | [New York] ; [1852?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 24.2 x 36.7 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1850-1860.Political cartoons 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Probably drawn by John L. Magee. Title appears as it is written on the item. Weitenkampf, p. 105. 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 1852-38. |
| Subjects | Brown, Albert Gallatin,--1813-1880. Cass, Lewis,--1782-1866. Clemens, Jeremiah,--1814-1865. Rhett, Robert Barnwell,--1800-1876. United States.--Congress.--House--1850-1860. United States.--Congress.--Senate--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,003 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-161012 |
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