Rowing him up Salt River,Lewis Cass,Zachary Taylor,Presidential Elections,1848
Title: Rowing him up Salt River
Related Names:
Currier, Nathaniel, 1813-1888.
Date Created/Published: 1848.
Summary: The cartoonist is optimistic about the prospects of Whig presidential candidate Zachary Taylor, here shown rowing Democratic oppponent Lewis Cass up the river of political misfortune. Cass, seated in the stern, wears an almost comical frown and Taylor, plying his oars in the bow, a look of determination.
Notes:
Entered . . . 1848 by P. Smith [i.e., Nathaniel Currier] . . . N.Y.
The Library's impression was deposited for copyright on July 10, 1848, a month after Taylor received the Whig nomination at the party's Philadelphia convention.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Gale, no. 5666.
Weitenkampf, p. 97.
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 1848-27.
Subjects:
Cass, Lewis,--1782-1866.
Taylor, Zachary,--1784-1850.
Presidential elections--United States--1840-1850.
Salt River.
Lithographs--1840-1850.
Political cartoons--1840-1850.
Bookmark /2008661489/
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