The seven stages of the office seeker / Clay,fecit.

Title: The seven stages of the office seeker / Clay, fecit.
Creator(s): Childs, J. (John), lithographer
Related Names:
Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857 , artist
Date Created/Published: [New York] : Pubd. by J[ohn] Childs, 84 Nassau St., N. York., [1852]. New York State politics, American folk art, Elizabeth Sears . Clay, a Whig, .Democrats in New York, controlled almost continuously since 1828 by presidents loyal to that party. Former Democratic governor of New York and later president Martin Van Buren apears as 'the Govenor' in vignette number three, 'Begging for Office.' Under Van Buren's administration, the Custom House, 'Regular Nominations' and a weather vane crowned by a liberty cap. 'Then on the Stump he takes his station, 'Potter's Field.' 7. 'Coroner's Inquest' - 'Now twelve wise men, accounting for his death, / Show how a rope may stop a mortal's breath.' Several men in an interior ponder the unfortunate's body. Below, a group of owls crowd around a dead horse.
Notes:
Weitenkampf, p. 68-69
Sears, The Ages of Man, p. 153
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1852-8.
Subjects:
Custom House (N.Y.)
New York, State of, state government and politics.
Spoils system and patronage.
Voters and voting.
Lithographs--1850-1860.
Political cartoons--1850-1860
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