Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
"What are your claims to the people's suffrage??"
Call Number
E-North 38/GC024/19th-Century American Caricatures/Normal/19th c./Caricatures GA 2024.03010
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcjw827q86j
Publisher
[United States] : [producer not identified], [between 1840 and 1849]
Language
English
Date Created
1840-1849
Extent
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; sheet: 28.3 x 43.5 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. 9164 ; acc 1959 June.
Depicts 4 figures: In foreground, at left, a man holding documents with text: "state convention legislative congress settlers' rights maintained 1824,25,26,27" and a sheep, standing on 2 legs, wearing lacy clothes and boots, holding up a card with text: "Legislation US Senate 0,0,0 ..." In foreground right, a widely-grinning man, arms akimbo, in a hat. Floating above, an allegorical figure of a man in classical garb, seated on a lion. In the background, at right, a flock of sheep.
3 speech balloons: What are your claims to the people's suffrage?? -- Ba, Ba, aaa -- Hourrah for our Alexander Ba, aa
Title from item: foremost speech balloon

Discovery Information

Subject
Sheep—Symbolic aspects
Pre-emption rights (United States)—Caricatures and cartoons
Suffrage—United States—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
United States—History—1815-1861—Caricatures and cartoons

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/7befff41-eb2a-4cb6-b73d-328dd733a798/manifest