Shooting the Christmas turkey – 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.)
Description
Shooting the Christmas turkey comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Shooting the Christmas turkey
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Titled "Shooting the Christmas turkey," this lithograph uses a holiday image to comment on the 1848 presidential race. Its subjects include Zachary Taylor, Lewis Cass, Martin Van Buren, and Millard Fillmore, along with Horace Greeley and David Wilmot, whose namesake proviso sought to bar slavery from territory won in the Mexican War. The Free Soil Party, which nominated Van Buren that year, drew antislavery Democrats and Whigs away from the major parties, and the print reflects how sharply that split divided the field. Published in New York by James Baillie, it is typical of the topical political prints sold to the public in that decade.
| Created / published | N.Y. : Pubd. by James Baillie, 1848. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 28.6 x 38.9 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1840-1850.Political cartoons 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Entered . . . 1848 by J. Baillie. Pubd. by James Baillie, 87th St. near 3d. Avenue, N.Y. Title appears as it is written on the item. Weitenkampf, p. 94. 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 1848-53. |
| Subjects | Cass, Lewis,--1782-1866. Fillmore, Millard,--1800-1874. Greeley, Horace,--1811-1872. Taylor, Zachary,--1784-1850. Van Buren, Martin,--1782-1862. Wilmot, David,--1814-1868. Free Soil Party (U.S.)--1840-1850. Wilmot proviso--1840-1850. Presidential elections--United States--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,160 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-137621 |
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