President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House / Robert Cruikshank fect. – Historic Reproduction
(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: President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House / Robert Cruikshank fect., preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House / Robert Cruikshank fect.
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Its title, "President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House," sums up the joke: a London caricature that imagines the whole country crowding into the executive mansion. It was published in London in 1841 as a color aquatint, the kind of plate used as a frontispiece in a book. The scene recalls the inauguration of Andrew Jackson in March 1829, when a huge, boisterous crowd of supporters flooded the White House for the public reception. Accounts of the day describe mud on the carpets, broken glassware, and officials who had to lure the crowd outside with tubs of punch. The print uses that chaotic day to poke fun at American democracy, as seen from across the Atlantic.
| Created / published | London : Saunders and Otley, 1841. |
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| Medium | 1 print : aquatint, color. |
| Genre | Frontispieces Color 1840-1850.Book illustrations Color 1840-1850.Aquatints Color 1840-1850. |
| Subjects | Jackson, Andrew,--1767-1845--Inauguration, 1829. White House (Washington, D.C.)--1820-1830. Crowds--Washington (D.C.)--1820-1830. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,289 × 1,413 px · prints to 8 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1104001 President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House, Washington, [March 4, 1829]. (Jackson) |
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