Willing to be hitched – 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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Willing to be hitched comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Its title, "Willing to be hitched," and the donkey at its center, the Democratic Party's emblem, make the joke plain: a party animal eager to be yoked to someone else's cart. The drawing was made in 1913, the year New York Governor William Sulzer was impeached for falsifying his campaign finance statements. The attack on him was led by Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany Hall boss who had long shaped Democratic politics in the state, and the cartoon belongs to that fight over party loyalty and machine influence. Its pen-and-ink lines are typical of the period's newspaper caricature, where a single image could carry a whole argument about who controlled the party.
| Created / published | 1913 |
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| Medium | 1 drawing : India ink over pencil on bristol board ; 45.3 x 37.1 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | No copyright information found with item. Signed, lower right: Clubb '3/ [club logogram]. Title inscribed in pencil below image. Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.903) New York Governor, William Sulzer was impeached from office in October, 1913, for falsifying hs statement of campaign finances. The attack was vigorously led by fellow Democrat and corrupt Tammany boss, Charles F. Murphy. Murphy, known as a powerful maker of governors and mayors, and firmly in control of the state Assembly, opposed Sulzer and his effort to expose graft and corruption and weed out the system that the Tammany boss so effectively controlled. Following his impeachment and just prior to the November election, Sulzer in retaliation, stumped New York City in opposition to Murphy and the Tammany machine. On November 4, citizens, apparently fed up with the corrupt Tammany machine, l |
| Subjects | Democratic Party (U.S.)--1910-1920. Tammany Hall--1910-1920. Corruption--New York (State)--1910-1920. Donkeys--1910-1920. Political elections--New York (State)--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,260 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156112 |
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