Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Rough & ready presidential cabinet in 1849
Call Number
E-North 38/GC024/19th-Century American Caricatures/Normal/19th c./Caricatures GA 2024.03006
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc00000c22x
Publisher
New York : Pubd. by H.R. Robinson, 1848
Language
English
Date Created
1848
Extent
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; image: 24.6 x 38.1 cm, sheet: 30.1 x 42 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.
Pubd. by H.R. Robinson, 31 Park Row (Adjoining Lovjoy's Hotel, & Directly Opposite the Park Fountain N.Y.)
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Depicts 6 cabinet members seated at a large table, Isaiah Rynders, John A. Quitman, and William J. Worth at left, and John E. Wool, Winfield Scott, and William W. S. Bliss at right. Zachary Taylor stands behind the table, the central figure in the image. On the table are several petitions, inkwells, and at center, a map of Mexico. With the exception of Rynders, all the men were U.S. Army officers in the Mexican-American War. 7 speech balloons are up top, one for each figure.

Discovery Information

Subject
Taylor, Zachary 1784-1850
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/50eee42f-9e73-4325-a57a-3e9717d9072c/manifest