A hard road to hoe! Or, the White House Turnpike, macadamized by the north benders – 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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A hard road to hoe! Or, the White House Turnpike, macadamized by the north benders comes to life in this historic print, 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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A hard road to hoe! Or, the White House Turnpike, macadamized by the north benders
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Its title sets the joke in motion: a hard road to hoe, with the White House Turnpike paved, or macadamized, by the "north benders" named in the caption. Dated 1840, the print belongs to the presidential campaign between Whig candidate William Henry Harrison and incumbent Martin Van Buren, and it treats the road to the White House as a figure for the contest itself. The subjects it names also include Andrew Jackson, the Capitol, and the Independent Treasury, the banking measure Van Buren backed. That mix shows how the cartoon linked the election to the fight over federal finances and to Jackson's political legacy.
| Created / published | 1840 |
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| Medium | 1 print : woodcut and letterpress with watercolor, on wove paper ; 21.5 x 29.9 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Political cartoons 1840.Woodcuts 1840. |
| Notes | Sold by Huestis & Co. 104 Nassau-St, N.Y. Title appears as it is written on the item. Weitenkampf, p. 68. 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 1840-26. |
| Subjects | Harrison, William Henry,--1773-1841. Jackson, Andrew,--1767-1845. Van Buren, Martin,--1782-1862. United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--1840. Independent treasury--1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,059 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111408 |
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