Print comments on the issue of the annexation of Texas by the United States in the 1844 U.S. Presidential election. President Tyler is depicted uncomfortably astride a Democratic "Tex-ass" with Democratic candidate James Polk who has annoyed Tyler by ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
H.R. Robinson, 142 Nassau Street, E.W.C. (signed on stone, E. Clay)
Subject (Geographic):
United States, United States., Texas, and Texas.
Subject (Name):
Polk, James K. 1795-1849 (James Knox),, Clay, Henry, 1777-1852, Tyler, John, 1790-1862, Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845, Equal Rights Party (N.Y.), Equal Rights Party (New York, N.Y.), Whig Party (U.S.), and Democratic Party (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Presidents, Election, Caricatures and cartoons, History, Animals, Symbolic aspects, Public buildings, and Annexation to the United States
Album of watercolor drawings depicting exotic animals, copied by the artist Ann Rich from the first few parts of the Naturalist’s Pocket Magazine (London, 1798-1802).
A vicious satire on the life and works of Philip Thicknesse, writer and soldier, dedicated to a number of Thicknesse's most prominent enemies: Lord Thurlow, the Earls of Camde, Bute, Bathurst, and Coventry as well as Thicknesse's own sons Baron Audley...
Alternative Title:
Lieutenant Governor Gall-Stone inspired by Alecto and Birth of Minerva
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 15th, 1790, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Thicknesse, Philip, 1719-1792
Subject (Topic):
Animals, Demons, Erinyes (Greek mythology), and Minerva (Roman deity)
A collection of Syriac prayers, incantations, amulets, and magical formulas, intended to provide protection in times of trouble. Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century
Description:
In Syriac.
Subject (Topic):
Amulets, Animals, Birds, Incantations, Insects, Plants, Syriac language, and Weapons
