On the way to Araby! – Antique Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of On the way to Araby!. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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On the way to Araby!" is a March 1836 lithograph by Edward Williams Clay, published in New York by H.R. Robinson. Its subjects include Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, and Nicholas Biddle, the Pennsylvania banker who headed the Second Bank of the United States, along with the Washington newspaper The Globe, which carried the Jackson administration's views. Jackson's campaign against the bank, often called the bank war, was among the sharpest political conflicts of the 1830s, and Clay's cartoons commented on it with pointed satire. This print is worth studying for how it links political leaders with the newspapers that shaped public opinion about them.
| Created / published | New York : Published by H.R. Robinson, 1836. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 27.7 x 37.5 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1830-1840.Political cartoons 1830-1840. |
| Notes | Entered . . . 1836 by H.R. Robinson. Published March 1836 by H.R. Robinson, 48 Cortlandt St. New York. Signed with monogram: C (Edward Williams Clay). Title appears as it is written on the item. Davison, no. 79. Weitenkampf, p. 40. 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 1836-8. |
| Subjects | Biddle, Nicholas,--1786-1844. Jackson, Andrew,--1767-1845. Van Buren, Martin,--1782-1862. Bank of the United States--1830-1840. Globe (Washington, D.C. : Daily)--1830-1840. Journalism--1830-1840. Pennsylvania--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,068 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109545 |
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