"Let every one take care of himself" (As the Jack ass said when he... |
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Options: 1) Download Source Image from Library of Congress 2) If link above doesn't work, try alternate LOC link 3) Report broken link TITLE:"Let every one take care of himself" (As the Jack ass said when he was dancing among the chickens) CALL NUMBER:PC/US - 1833.I32, no. 1 (B size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZC4-12984 (color film copy transparency) SUMMARY:A satire attacking Andrew Jackson''s plan to distribute treasury funds, formerly kept in the Bank of the United States, among "branch banks" in various states. The artist also alleges Vice-President Van Buren''s manipulation of administration fiscal policy. Jackson appears as a jack-ass "dancing among the Chickens" (the branch banks) to the alarm of the hen "U.S.Bank." Martin Van Buren, as a fox, and Jack Downing, as a cock, look on. On the left sit five chained dogs, representing the "Albany Argus, Journal of Commerce," and other newspapers sympathetic to Jackson''s program. In the left foreground a sow with the head of Jackson advisor Francis Preston Blair lies on a copy of his newspaper, the "Globe." Jack Downing: "Yankee doodle doodle doo!" Jackson: "Sing away Major Downing. This is a capital Experiment by the Eternal!" Dogs: "He looks like a "Lion!" How dignified! What "correct" Steps! in such "good time!" Can any thing equal him! The "greatest" and "best" Ass we ever knew!" Blair: "I feel quite at home on this dung heap." Van Buren: ""Sly" is the word!" MEDIUM:1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 28.1 x 39.5 cm (image) CREATED/PUBLISHED:1833. RELATED NAMES: Imbert, Anthony, 1794 or 5-1834. NOTES: Title appears as it is written on the item. Published and for sale whole sale and retail at Imbert''s Caricature Store No. 104 Broadway N.Y. Weitenkampf, p. 33 Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1833-7. TOPICS: Downing, Jack or "Zek" (Fictitious character) FORMAT: Political cartoons. REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:(digital file from color film copy transparency) cph 3g12984 CONTROL #:app1994000737/PP
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