Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
River of Styx : or Horace with his trundle Cassius, bearing a load of "Principles not men"
Call Number
E-North 38/GC024/19th-Century American Caricatures/Normal/19th c./Caricatures GA 2024.03007
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc9c67x1014
Publisher
New York : Publd. by H.R. Robinson, 1848
Language
English
Date Created
1848
Extent
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; image: 26.8 x 38.9 cm, sheet: 32.2 x 42.6 cm
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift of James B. Rankin, Princeton University Class of 1923.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Princeton copy 1 Visual - E series no. 9163 ; acc 1959 June.
"Entered ... in the year 1848 by H.R. Robinson ..."
"Lith. & Publd. by H.R. Robinson, 31 Park Row N.Y. (Adjoining Lovejoy's Hotel, & Directly Opposite the Fountain)"
Title appears as it is written on the item.
6 speech balloons: "Go on, good Cassius," it is more in sorrow than in anger that I do this. -- By running Harry again the Party would be Committing suicide! -- I don't sympathize with you Cassius -- "By the necessity of my nature, your Enemy" -- "Oh! Spare my life; I'm the Son of the Hon. H. Clay, who is at the head of the Peace Party." -- Hilloa! here's Horace with a brace of Editors. I wonder if one of them has brought the $350 watch & $70 brastpin that he took to fight the Mexicans with.
Depiction: A running Horace Greeley pushes a human wheelbarrow toward the edge of a precipice. A two-faced Henry Clay, Jr. serves as the wheelbarrow, bearing the load of a two-faced Zachary Taylor. Charon, in a boat, leans into the picture frame at right.

Discovery Information

Subject
Taylor, Zachary 1784-1850
Greeley, Horace 1811-1872
Cass, Lewis 1782-1866
Presidents—United States—Election—1848

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/a043abb7-51c7-42e0-8ce3-289d3dbf26a1/manifest