Old Jack, the famous New Orleans mouser, clearing Uncle Sam's barn of bank and Clay rats; ... – 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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Step back in time with Old Jack, the famous New Orleans mouser, clearing Uncle Sam's barn of bank and Clay rats; ..., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Old Jack, the famous New Orleans mouser, clearing Uncle Sam's barn of bank and Clay rats; ...
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Old Jack, the cat in this lithograph, stands in for Andrew Jackson, and the title's New Orleans reference recalls his fame from the 1815 battle there. The rats he chases stand for the Bank of the United States and for Henry Clay, Jackson's rival in the 1832 election, and the bank's president, Nicholas Biddle, is among the figures named. Michael Williams drew and printed the sheet in New York in 1832, the year Congress passed a bill to recharter the bank and Jackson vetoed it. Cartoons like this used an animal fable to make the fight over the national bank readable at a glance.
| Created / published | 1832 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 23.9 x 32.8 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1830-1840.Political cartoons 1830-1840. |
| Notes | Copyright secur'd 1832. Michael Williams Del et Lith 44 Canal Street N.Y. Title appears as it is written on the item. Weitenkampf, p. 29. 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 1832-5. |
| Subjects | Biddle, Nicholas,--1786-1844. Clay, Henry,--1777-1852.--Political activity. Jackson, Andrew,--1767-1845. King, Charles,--1789-1867. Webb, J. Watson. (James Watson),--1802-1884. Bank of the United States--1830-1840. Economic policy--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,136 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-131273 |
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