Cleansing the Augean stable – Antique Print
(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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Cleansing the Augean stable 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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Cleansing the Augean stable
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Few 1844 prints draw on classical myth as directly as this one, which takes its title from the labor of Hercules, who cleaned King Augeas's filthy stables in a single day, a long-standing image for corruption that needs a sweeping purge. The nine men named in the print, from Clay and Webster to Polk and Tyler, belong to a crowded presidential season in which the annexation of Texas was a central question and Tyler's annexation treaty had just failed in the Senate. Drawn by H. Bucholzer and printed in New York by James Baillie, with hand coloring, the sheet shows how partisan cartoonists used a learned allusion to comment on a bitterly contested election.
| Created / published | 1844 |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph with watercolor, on wove paper ; 30.1 x 44 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1840-1850.Political cartoons 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Drawn by H. Bucholzer. Entered . . . 1844 by James Baillie. Lithography & print coloring on reasonable terms by James Baillie No. 33 Spruce St. New York. Title appears as it is written on the item. Weitenkampf, p. 79. 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 1844-35. |
| Subjects | Benton, Thomas Hart,--1782-1858. Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell),--1782-1850. Clay, Henry,--1777-1852. Dallas, George Mifflin,--1792-1864. Jackson, Andrew,--1767-1845. Polk, James K. (James Knox),--1795-1849. Tyler, John,--1790-1862. Van Buren, Martin,--1782-1862. Webster, Daniel,--1782-1852. Presidential elections--United States--1840-1850. Secession--Texas--1840-1850. Mexico--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,162 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-131735 |
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