Sub treasurers meeting,England,1838,William Price,Samuel Swartwout,Tammany Hall

Title: Sub treasurers meeting in England
Related Names:
Robinson, Henry R., d. 1850.
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Printed & publd. by H.R. Robinson, 1838.
Summary: A satire on corruption among Tammany officeholders in New York, showing absconded former Collector of the Port Samuel Swartwout and federal District Attorney William M. Price in London. Whig press as an indictment of Van Buren's 'Sub-Treasury' or independent treasury program. (See also 'Price Current,' no. 1838-21). Swartwout fled to Europe and was soon followed by Price. In the print the two men embrace, Swartwout (on the left) concealing a purse marked $1,500,000 and Price concealing one marked $1,200,000. Theatre Royal, featuring 'First appearance From U. S. America. New Way to Pay Old Debts. Raising the Wind. Catch him who can.' These names echo Elizabethan and Jacobean drawma titles. Swartout says: Fees due to me,
Entd . . . 1838 by H.R. Robinson.
Printed & publd. by H.R. Robinson, 52 Cortlandt & 11-1/2 Wall St. N.Y.
The print was registered for copyright on December 14, 1838.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Weitenkampf, p. 54.
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 1838-20.
Subjects:
Price, William M.
Swartwout, Samuel,--1783-1856.
Tammany Hall--1830-1840.
Independent treasury--1830-1840.
Lithographs--1830-1840.
Political cartoons--1830-1840
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