Item Summary

A pro-Cass satire, predicting the Democratic nominee's victory over Whig Zachary Taylor and Free Soil candidate Martin Van Buren. After the "fair," or election, Lewis Cass appears at the window of the White House, at upper left. Below him Taylor, pursued by bloodhounds, tries unsuccessfully to climb up the building's downspout, which is labeled "Whig Platform." The bloodhounds recall those used by Taylor against the Indians in the Second Seminole War. Taylor says here, "When Cuba is Annexed I hope these Foreigners will no longer be imported to annoy the 'Natives' in this way." (The dogs used in Florida were Cuban.) Cass quips, "Ah, Genl. up a spout eh? I am glad that you have found a Platform at last." Taylor was criticized during the campaign for failing to declare a platform. The bloodhounds sniff at his discarded sword. Further right a dead goose lies in the road, and further on a fox, Martin Van Buren, runs toward his burrow at the edge of the forest of "Free Teritory." Van Buren says, "I shall run in safe enough." At the far left Cass ally William A. Marcy stands with his hands in his pockets. He urges on the bloodhounds with, "Help your self to Fox & Geese, but don't 'Worry' the old Genl.' only ascertain his whereabouts.'" Marcy is identified by the "50 cents" trouser patch on his seat. The goose was used throughout the 1844 and 1848 campaigns as a symbol of incumbent President James K. Polk.

Descriptive Information

Title
The day after the fair.
Call Number
E-North 38/GC024/19th-Century American Caricatures/Normal/19th c./Caricatures GA 2024.03004
Identifier
ark:/88435/dchx11xt43n
Publisher
N. York : Lith. & pubd. by H.R. Robinson, 1848.
Language
English
Date Created
1848
Extent
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; image: 26.3 x 37.8 cm
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift of James B. Rankin, Princeton University Class of 1923.
References
Weitenkampf, p. 96
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Lith. & pubd. by H.R. Robinson, 31 Park Row N. York. (Adjoining Lovjoy's Hotel, & Directly Opposite the Park Fountain.).
Signed with initials: W.J.C.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Princeton copy 1 Visual - E series no. 9163 ; acc 1959 June.

Discovery Information

Subject
Cass, Lewis 1782-1866
Marcy, William L. (William Learned) 1786-1857
Taylor, Zachary 1784-1850
Van Buren, Martin 1782-1862
Caricatures

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e8d41802-4f36-40db-8a4d-2e145615f84e/manifest