The forty thieves or the common scoundrels of New-York PC/US -... |
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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:The forty thieves or the common scoundrels of New-York CALL NUMBER:PC/US - 1840.A000, no. 10 (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZ62-89590 (b&w film copy neg.) SUMMARY:The title continues: "Breaking up of a Grand Spree in the Tea Room & total abflustification of the common scoundrels." Weitenkampf calls the print a satirical look at members of the New York Common Council "after a spree of eating and drinking," and cites two others by Elton. The artist also suggests corruption in that Tammany-controlled civic body, a center of Democratic power in 1840. It is a crowded scene of drunken merriment. In the foreground are several comical figures in various attitudes, including a reeling heavy-set man who says, "I''m affraid I''ve not done me juty to me w-a-r-d this evening, let me see what I''ve had: three Oyster stews . . . " He leans on a smaller man who says, "Don''t make yourself uneasy Sir, if you havent done your duty on this occassion, I would like to see the man who has & if there is such a man all I want is his Daguerreotype Likeness to hang on the inside of my shirt to remember him by . . ." (Daguerreotypes were first introduced in 1839, and portrait studios had opened in several major cities in the United States by early 1840.) On the right two others converse. One, with a bulbous red nose, lifts his glass aloft. The second holds a bag marked "40,000." The first says, "Ah! that''s the talk! let me see with that amount of stuff, I can cut out forty pairs of pantaloons with a thousand sets of trimmings for each man, o yes Sir depend on it, the documents shall be forthcoming!" The second, "Here is the Stuff for pantaloons & I hope now you will put that matter through & let me have the contract without delay." In the middle ground left a black manservant holds a tray of cups before the open door to a "Tea Room." MEDIUM:1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 27.6 x 37.6 cm (image) CREATED/PUBLISHED:1840. RELATED NAMES: Magee, John L. NOTES: Title appears as it is written on the item. [Probably drawn by John L. Magee] For Sale at 124 Nassau St. N. Y. Weitenkampf, pp. 68-69 Murrell, pp. 162, 164 Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1840-1. TOPICS: Tammany Democrats. FORMAT: Political cartoons. REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:(digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b35961 CONTROL #:app1994000085/PP
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