Going up Salt River – Vintage 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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This rare antique lithograph captures Going up Salt River in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Going up Salt River
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Going up Salt River" uses a phrase that meant political defeat in the 1840s, so the title is the cartoon's joke. The lithograph places five public men in one scene: Henry Clay, William Henry Harrison, Martin Van Buren, Daniel Webster and Henry A. Wise. Published by John Childs in New York in 1840, it belongs to the flood of satirical prints that accompanied that year's presidential contest. The record tentatively credits the drawing to Edward Williams Clay. That fall, Harrison defeated the incumbent Van Buren, which gives the print's mockery a clear political target.
| Created / published | New York : Published by John Childs, 1840. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 30.1 x 37.2 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1840.Political cartoons 1840. |
| Notes | Drawn by Edward Williams Clay? Published by John Childs, 90 Nassau St. New York. Title appears as it is written on the item. Weitenkampf, p. 67. 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 1840-49. |
| Subjects | Clay, Henry,--1777-1852.--Political activity. Harrison, William Henry,--1773-1841. Van Buren, Martin,--1782-1862. Webster, Daniel,--1782-1852. Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander),--1806-1876. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,167 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111608 |
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