Patent Democratic Republican steam shaving shop,Presidential Election,Political

Title: Patent Democratic Republican steam shaving shop
Related Names:
Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857.
Willis & Probst.
Date Created/Published: 1844.
Summary: A cryptic satire possibly dealing with some facet of the 1844 presidential campaign. The print features two unsuccessful aspirants for the Democratic presidential nomination: Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Johnson. In an interior a bearded man wearing a plaid vest attends a steam boiler (left), watching as several others are lathered and shaved by various steam-powered apparatuses. Around a large bowl of shaving lather sit (left to right) Van Buren, an unidentified young man, New York 'Herald' editor James Gordon Bennett, and Richard M. Johnson. Over Johnson's head is a plaque advertising 'Patent Tetragmenon formosum for turning grey hair black . . . ,' perhaps a swipe at the ages of the veteran candidates (Johnson was sixty-three, Van Buren sixty-two). Another plaque, at left, reads 'Rowlands Essence of Steam. For Promoting the Growth of Whiskers. Sold here.' In the foreground sit a gentleman and a seaman, both being shaved by machines that they operate by foot pedals. The mariner's hat hangs from a peg on the wall above his head. On the floor near the gentleman are his hat and cane, and a muzzled dog. The cartoon has resisted interpretation. Murrell and Weitenkampf both suggest a date in the 1830s, but Davison's tentative 1844 is more convincing in terms of subject and on stylistic grounds.
Notes:
Signed with monogram: EWC (Edward Williams Clay).
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Willis & Probst Lith. 2, Wall St. N.Y.
Davison, no. 178.
Murrell, p. 150.
Weitenkampf, p. 53.
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 1844-44.
Subjects:
Bennett, James Gordon,--1795-1872.
Johnson, Richard M.--(Richard Mentor),--1780-1850.
Van Buren, Martin,--1782-1862.
Presidential elections--United States--1840-1850.
Lithographs--1840-1850.
Political cartoons--1840-1850.
Bookmark /2008661445/
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