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The knight of the wheelbarrow!!
1835
"The recto is almost completely filled with a large caricature of 'Captain Pollywog.' Captain Pollywog was Dudley S. Palmer, the editor of The Courier, or 'The Courier of Iniquity,' as The Transcript calls it. He served as New Hampshire's Secretary of State in 1830, having deserted the Jacksonian party to win election as a Federalist. Hence the almost incredible vituperation which The Transcript pours upon his head." --Early American book illustrators and wood engravers, 1670-1870
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Metadata
- Call Number
- E-North 38/GC024/19th-Century American Caricatures/Normal/19th c./Caricatures GA 2024.03013
- Publisher
- Concord, N.H., 1835
- People
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- Author
- Downes, John, 1799-1882
- Related Name
- Sinclair Hamilton Collection of American Illustrated Books
- Language
- English
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Item Summary
"The recto is almost completely filled with a large caricature of 'Captain Pollywog.' Captain Pollywog was Dudley S. Palmer, the editor of The Courier, or 'The Courier of Iniquity,' as The Transcript calls it. He served as New Hampshire's Secretary of State in 1830, having deserted the Jacksonian party to win election as a Federalist. Hence the almost incredible vituperation which The Transcript pours upon his head." --Early American book illustrators and wood engravers, 1670-1870
Descriptive Information
- Title
- The knight of the wheelbarrow!!
- Call Number
- E-North 38/GC024/19th-Century American Caricatures/Normal/19th c./Caricatures GA 2024.03013
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dc3n204b290
- Publisher
- Concord, N.H., 1835
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- 1835
- Extent
- 1 sheet : engraving ; 42 x 30 cm
- References
- Sinclair Hamilton Collection no. 1646
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Labelled: Sinclair Hamilton Collection of American Illustrated Books No. S-174
- Depiction: A grinning mask-like face.
- Text on recto: "To the public. As some of our friends out of town have been quite anxious to learn, what kind of a looking critter Captain Pollywog is, and as we have been at a considerable expense, we now lay before our readers, the honest, the penitent, the meek and lowly, the particular friend of brothels and grog shops, his true, yet ill-shaped phiz. 'The Knight of the Wheelbarrow!!'" ; 4 columns of text on verso.
- Princeton copy 1 Mounted in mat.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 3
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- Collection
- Omega Project
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/761ec637-072b-4da8-9182-881ffb9264ae/manifest