Fording Salt River – Vintage 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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Fording Salt River comes to life in this antique lithograph, 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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The title, *Fording Salt River*, borrows the American phrase "up Salt River," meaning headed for defeat, and it suits an 1848 cartoon crowded with presidential hopefuls. James Baillie published this New York lithograph, which is signed with reversed initials, H.B., for H. Bucholzer. Its figures include Henry Clay, Zachary Taylor, both Van Burens, Horace Greeley and Cassius Marcellus Clay, alongside references to the Free Soil Party and the White House, reflecting the divided politics of that election.
| Created / published | New York : Published by James Baillie, 1848. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 29.1 x 39.1 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1840-1850.Political cartoons 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Entered . . . 1848 by J. Baillie. Published by James Baillie, 87th St. near Third Avenue, New York. Signed with reversed initials: H.B. (H. Bucholzer). Title appears as it is written on the item. Weitenkampf, p. 97. 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 1848-29. |
| Subjects | Clay, Cassius Marcellus,--1810-1903. Clay, Henry,--1777-1852. Greeley, Horace,--1811-1872. Taylor, Zachary,--1784-1850. Van Buren, John,--1810-1866. Van Buren, Martin,--1782-1862. Free Soil Party (U.S.)--1840-1850. White House (Washington, D.C.)--1840-1850. Presidential elections--United States--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,111 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111565 |
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