Grand national Whig banner: press onward / lith. & pub. by N. Currier 152 Nassau St. . . . N.Y. – Antique Print
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Grand national Whig banner: press onward / lith. & pub. by N. Currier 152 Nassau St. . . . N.Y.
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Press onward" is the motto on this hand-colored lithograph, which presents itself as a grand national Whig banner for Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. Taylor, a general whose fame came from the Mexican War, had little record in party politics, and the Whigs nominated him in 1848 largely for his military reputation. Fillmore, a New York politician, was his running mate. The New York printer Nathaniel Currier issued the sheet, and its bright color and banner format were typical of the campaign prints that circulated that year. Taylor won the presidency in 1848.
| Created / published | [New York : Published by N. Currier, c1848. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph with watercolor ; image 31.2 x 23 cm. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1840-1850.Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2735 Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1848-7. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 71. |
| Subjects | Taylor, Zachary,--1784-1850. Fillmore, Millard,--1800-1874. Presidential elections--United States--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,100 × 2,779 px · prints to 7 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172891 |
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