John Bull and his friend Cleveland – Historic 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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A window into the past: John Bull and his friend Cleveland, preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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John Bull and his friend Cleveland
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Here the Cleveland in question is not the Ohio city but President Grover Cleveland, shown as the companion of John Bull, the long-standing personification of Britain. Published in New York around 1888, the year Cleveland sought reelection, the hand-colored lithograph reflects the firm's habit of using caricature to comment on election-year politics. The pairing likely points to Cleveland's push to lower the tariff, a policy that free-trade advocates in Britain and America welcomed. The print is cataloged as number 3516 in the Gale Research catalog raisonné of Currier & Ives.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1888. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3516 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,113 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174811 |
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