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President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House / Robert Cruikshank fect. – Vintage Wall Art

President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House / Robert Cruikshank fect., London : Saunders and Otley, 1841. — historic print
President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House / Robert Cruikshank fect., London : Saunders and Otley, 1841.. Historic print from the White House collection.

(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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Step back in time with President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House / Robert Cruikshank fect., a historic print rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Robert Cruikshank's aquatint, published in London in 1841, is a satirical scene of a crowd pouring toward the White House under the title "President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House." It shows the open reception held after Andrew Jackson's 1829 inauguration, when so many visitors pressed into the building that the event became notorious for its disorder. The British artist, a brother of the caricaturist George Cruikshank, used the scene to mock what he saw as the rowdy egalitarianism of American public life. The print appeared as a book frontispiece, which helps explain its small, theatrical composition.

Created / publishedLondon : Saunders and Otley, 1841.
Medium1 print : aquatint, color.
GenreFrontispieces Color 1840-1850.Book illustrations Color 1840-1850.Aquatints Color 1840-1850.
SubjectsJackson, Andrew,--1767-1845--Inauguration, 1829. White House (Washington, D.C.)--1820-1830. Crowds--Washington (D.C.)--1820-1830.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,091 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176912

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