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The doctors puzzled or the desparate case of Mother U.S. Bank – Vintage Print

The doctors puzzled or the desparate case of Mother U.S. Bank, New York : Published and for sale wholesale and retail by Anthony Imbert at his Caricature Store, 1833. — antique lithograph
The doctors puzzled or the desparate case of Mother U.S. Bank, New York : Published and for sale wholesale and retail by Anthony Imbert at his Caricature Store, 1833.. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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The title casts the Second Bank of the United States as a sick patient, "Mother U.S. Bank," tended by a row of physicians. Congress had chartered the bank, and Nicholas Biddle ran it, but President Andrew Jackson vetoed its recharter in 1832 and moved to pull federal deposits from it. Anthony Imbert published this lithograph at his Broadway caricature shop in 1833, when the fight was at its height. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun and Biddle are the figures named in the record, and the print turns a dispute over banking and public money into a bedside scene.

Created / publishedNew York : Published and for sale wholesale and retail by Anthony Imbert at his Caricature Store, 1833.
Medium1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 28 x 39.2 cm. (image)
GenreLithographs 1830-1840.Political cartoons 1830-1840.
NotesPublished and for sale wholesale and retail by Anthony Imbert at his Caricature Store no. 104 Broadway, New York. Title appears as it is written on the item. Helfand, p. 9. Weitenkampf, p. 28-29. 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 1833-10.
SubjectsBiddle, Nicholas,--1786-1844. Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell),--1782-1850. Clay, Henry,--1777-1852.--Political activity. Webster, Daniel,--1782-1852. Economic policy--1830-1840.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,098 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-143430

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