Knock'd into a cock'd hat – Antique Print
![Knock'd into a cock'd hat, N.Y. : Pub. by Peter Smith [i.e., Nathaniel Currier], 1848. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/89/89798df2b517-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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A window into the past: Knock'd into a cock'd hat, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Its title, "Knock'd into a cock'd hat," is an old phrase for beating someone thoroughly, and this lithograph applies it to the 1848 presidential race between Whig Zachary Taylor and Democrat Lewis Cass. Nathaniel Currier issued the print under the imprint of Peter Smith at 2 Spruce Street in New York, and it was deposited for copyright on July 10, 1848. The record also ties it to Philadelphia, where the Whigs had met that June to nominate Taylor, a Mexican War general. Taylor won the election that fall, so the cartoon's boast reads now as a prediction that came true.
| Created / published | N.Y. : Pub. by Peter Smith [i.e., Nathaniel Currier], 1848. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 30.7 x 43.3 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1840-1850.Political cartoons 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Entered . . . 1848 by P. Smith. Pub. by Peter Smith [i.e., Nathaniel Currier], 2 Spruce St. N.Y. The Library's impression of the print was deposited for copyright on July 10, 1848. Title appears as it is written on the item. Blaisdell and Selz, no. 20. Weitenkampf, p. 91. 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 1848-18. |
| Subjects | Cass, Lewis,--1782-1866. Taylor, Zachary,--1784-1850. Presidential elections--United States--1840-1850. Philadelphia (Pa.)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,085 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-112800 |
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