Forty Theives or Common Scoundrels,New York,1840,Tammany Hall,New York,Armstrong

Title: The forty thieves or the common scoundrels of New-York
Related Names:
Magee, John L.
Date Created/Published: 1840.
Summary: The title continues: 'Breaking up of a Grand Spree in the Tea Room & total abflustification of the common scoundrels.' Weitenkampf calls the print a satirical look at members of the New York Common Council 'after a spree of eating and drinking,' and cites two others by Elton. The artist also suggests corruption in that Tammany-controlled civic body, a center of Democratic power in 1840. It is a crowded scene of drunken merriment. In the foreground are several comical figures in various attitudes, including a reeling heavy-set man who says, 'I'm affraid I've not done me juty to me w-a-r-d this evening, let me see what I've had: three Oyster stews . . . ' He leans on a smaller man who says, 'Don't make yourself uneasy Sir, if you havent done your duty on this occassion, I would like to see the man who has & if there is such a man all I want is his Daguerreotype Likeness to hang on the inside of my shirt to remember him by . . .' (Daguerreotypes were first introduced in 1839, and portrait studios had opened in several major cities in the United States by early 1840.) On the right two others converse. One, with a bulbous red nose, lifts his glass aloft. The second holds a bag marked '40,000.' The first says, 'Ah! that's the talk! let me see with that amount of stuff, I can cut out forty pairs of pantaloons with a thousand sets of trimmings for each man, o yes Sir depend on it, the documents shall be forthcoming!' The second, 'Here is the Stuff for pantaloons & I hope now you will put that matter through & let me have the contract without delay.' In the middle ground left a black manservant holds a tray of cups before the open door to a 'Tea Room.'
Notes:
For sale at 124 Nassau St. N.Y.
Probably drawn by John L. Magee.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Murrell, p. 162, 164.
Weitenkampf, p. 68-69.
Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1840-1.
Subjects:
Tammany Hall--1840.
Political elections--1840.
New York (N.Y.)--1840.
Armstrong.
Lithographs--1840.
Political cartoons--1840.
Bookmark /2008661348/
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