What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander – Antique Print
![What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, N.Y. : [s.n.], 1851. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a2/a2f9c3adbc66-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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The title, "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander," is a proverb turned into an argument about the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, and the record places William Lloyd Garrison and William Henry Seward among its subjects. Edward Williams Clay, who signed the sheet with his initials, was a New York caricaturist known for satirical prints that often mocked abolitionists. Published in 1851, shortly after the law took effect, the lithograph also points to South Carolina and to the sectional fight over slavery that was intensifying in the early 1850s, which makes it a useful view of how partisan prints framed that conflict.
| Created / published | N.Y. : [s.n.], 1851. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 27.7 x 43.9 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1850-1860.Political cartoons 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Entered . . . 1851 by E.W. Clay . . . Southern District of N.Y. Pub. at 152 Nassau St. corner of Spruce N.Y. Signed with initials: E.W.C. (Edward Williams Clay). The Library's impression of the print was deposited for copyright on January 22, 1851. Title appears as it is written on the item. Century, p. 70. Weitenkampf, p. 103. 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 1851-5. |
| Subjects | Garrison, William Lloyd,--1805-1879. Seward, William Henry,--1801-1872. United States. Fugitive slave law (1850) African Americans--1850-1860. Abolition movement--1850-1860. Slavery--1850-1860. South Carolina--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,088 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-161134 |
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