Ultimatum on the Oregon question

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Title: Ultimatum on the Oregon question
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, artist
Contributor: Baillie, James S., active 1838-1855, publisher, lithographer.
Published / Created: [1846]
Copyright Date: ©1846
Publication Place: N.Y. and United States New York (State) New York
Publisher: Lith. & pub. by J. Baillie
Abstract: This satirical view of the Oregon question caricatures the self-interested attitudes of European states and leaders toward the dispute. To the right, Polk, urged on by the belligerent General Bunkum, faces left toward Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and Duke Wellington with a lion across the ocean. In the middle ground, O'Connel calls for repeal (of the corn laws). In the background distance, on "neutral Ground," Louis Philippe of France and Czar Nicholas I of Russia look on and comment
Description: Title from caption below image.
Print signed: E.W.C.
On lower right of print: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1846 by J. Baillie in the clerk's office in the Distt. Ct. for the Southern Distt. N.Y.
On lower left of print: Lith & pub. by James Baillie 118 Nassau St. N.Y.
Extent: 1 print : 27 x 40 cm, on sheet 33 x 43 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Lithographs
Political cartoons
Material: black and white ;, paper, ink, lithography, and single sided
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1773-1850
Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia, 1796-1855
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861
Polk, James K. 1795-1849 (James Knox),
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
O'Connel, Daniel, 1775-1847,
Subject (Topic): Oregon question
Corn laws (Great Britain)
Subjects: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 > Pictorial works
Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1773-1850 > Pictorial works
Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia, 1796-1855 > Pictorial works
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861 > Pictorial works
Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849 > Pictorial works
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 > Pictorial works
O'Connel, Daniel, 1775-1847 > Pictorial works
Oregon question > Pictorial works
Corn laws (Great Britain) > Pictorial works

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