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The National barber,Samuel W. Dewey, Andrew Jackson, USS Constitution

The National barber
Title: The National barber
Date Created/Published: [United States]: [Publisher not identified], [ca. 1834]
Summary: Print shows a sailor, identitied elsewhere as Samuel W. Dewey, having sawn the head of Andrew Jackson off the figurehead of the U.S.S. Constitution, passes it to another sailor awaiting in a rowboat alongside the ship. An eagle flying overhead holds in its beak a liberty cap labeled 'The Constitution must be preserved.'
Notes:
Title from item.
Caption continues: 'Nat, pass along the knowledge box, that son of a gun snores so loud, he will wake the Commodore.'
Purchase; Goodspeeds Book Shop, Inc.; (DLC/PP-1990:118)
Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: 'American Faces : A Cultural History of Portraiture and Identity' at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, February - April 2017.
Subjects:
Jackson, Andrew,--1767-1845.
Dewey, Samuel W.,--1807-1899.
Constitution (Frigate)--1830-1840.
Ship figureheads--1830-1840.
Decapitations--1830-1840.
Sailors--1830-1840.
Lithographs--1830-1840.
Political cartoons--1830-1840.
Bookmark /2010633727/
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