Abolition frowned down – Historic Reproduction
(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.)
Description
This rare antique lithograph captures Abolition frowned down in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Adams is the figure this print puts at its center: John Quincy Adams, the former president who had returned to Congress and became the most persistent voice against slavery in the House. The cartoon, titled *Abolition Frowned Down*, appeared in 1839, when Southern members were using the "gag rule" to table antislavery petitions without debate, and Adams repeatedly challenged that practice on the floor. Waddy Thompson, a South Carolina congressman also named in the record, represents the proslavery side of that clash. Lithographs like this one were a popular way for Americans to follow such fights, and the hand-applied watercolor makes it a useful example of how political prints were finished for sale.
| Created / published | 1839 |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph with watercolor on wove paper ; 24.8 x 38.1 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1830-1840.Political cartoons 1830-1840. |
| Notes | Drawn by HD? Entd . . . 1839 by H.R. Robinson . . . Southn. Dist. of N.Y. Title appears as it is written on the item. Weitenkampf, p. 59. 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 1839-12. |
| Subjects | Adams, John Quincy,--1767-1848. Thompson, Waddy,--1798-1868. United States.--Congress.--House--1830-1840. United States.--Congress.--Senate--1830-1840. African Americans--1830-1840. Abolition movement--1830-1840. Slavery--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 949 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111477 |
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