A foot-race – 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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This rare historic print captures A foot-race in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A foot-race
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Four men named in the record, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Harris Crawford, and the elder John Adams, appear in this 1824 etching by David Claypool Johnston, a Boston caricaturist who signed some plates with the name "Crackfardi." The race imagery fits the 1824 presidential contest, a crowded field in which no candidate won an electoral majority, so the choice passed to the House of Representatives. The notes suggest the print appeared late in the campaign, probably in October, when political caricatures were used to sway voters.
| Created / published | Boston : Crackfardi Delt. et Sct. David Claypool Johnston, 1824. |
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| Medium | 1 print : etching on wove paper ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | p. 32-33. Johnson |
| Notes | (Swann Fund Purchase) Crackfardi Delt. et Sct. (David Claypool Johnston, Boston). The print probably appeared late in the election campaign, as Weitenkampf cites an impression in the New York Public Library with the copyright legend Entered . . . Oct. 6 |
| Subjects | Adams, John Quincy,--1767-1848. Adams, John,--1735-1826. Crawford, William Harris,--1772-1834. Jackson, Andrew,--1767-1845. Presidential elections--United States.--1820-1830. France--1820-1830. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,138 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-160985 |
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