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 his adoption of annexation as his own cause in the election. Whig candidate Henry Clay, astride a white horse, argues against annexation as proposed by Tyler and supported by Polk. Former President Andrew Jackson (Democratic Party), stands by a tree with a noose, inviting Polk to turn over Tyler so Jackson can "annex" him by the noose to the tree
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Printed area measures 43.5 x 32.0 cm.
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
Portrays, imaginatively, an event in the Texas war of independence: the surrender of Mexican commander Santa Anna and his brother-in-law, General Martin Perfecto de Cos, to American leader Samuel Houston after the Battle of San Jacinto in late April 1836. Santa Anna (center) bows and offers his sword to Houston, saying, "I consent to remain your prisoner, most excellent sir!! Me no Alamo!!" Cos follows suit. Houston, clad in buckskins and holding a musket, says, "You are two bloody villains, and to treat you as you deserve, I ought to have you shot as an example! Remember the Alamo and Fannin!"
Alternative Title:
General Houston, Santa Anna and Cos
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +188: On sheet 36 x 52 cm. Hand colored. and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published June, 1836 by the proprietor, H.R. Robinson, 48 Courtlandt Street, New York
Subject (Geographic):
Texas, United States, Mexico., and United States.
Subject (Name):
Houston, Sam, 1793-1863, Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794-1876, Cos, Martín Perfecto de, 1800-1854, Cos, Martín Perfecto de, 1800-1854., and Houston, Sam, 1793-1863.
Subject (Topic):
San Jacinto, Battle of, Tex., 1836, History, Campaign, Foreign relations, and Diplomatic relations
Print reproduces the oil painting "Surrender of Santa Anna" made by William Henry Huddle in 1886; depicts the surrender of Santa Anna to Sam Houston the day after the Battle of San Jacinto; a wounded General Houston is shown lying under a moss-hung oak tree attended by a doctor; Houston extends his hand to Santa Anna as other men look on.
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +146: On verso, in hand: Shorey’s Bookstore 815 3rd Ave. Seattle January, 1938. $7.50. On verso, typed on label: This picture was found in the old Texas town of Banders where it had been for many years. There are but two of them known to exist. One in the glass case at the Alamo at San Antonio, Texas. Later typing appears at the top of the label: Slip sent by Shorey., Title from caption above image., Additional text below caption title is an index to persons in the image, which are hand numbered within the image: Names of those present when Santa Anna was brought before the commander-in-chief, General Sam Houston. 1. General Sam Houston 2. General Santa Anna 3. Thomas J. Rusk 4. Mirabeau B. Lamar 5. Chaddock 6. Ben McCullough 7. McManus 8. Belmonte 9. Gen. Edward Burleson 10. Col. Wharton 11. Col. Sydney Sherman 12. Joel W. Robison 13. Walter P. Lane 14. Sylvest 15. Jesse Billingsly 16. Tom Green 17. Gen. Alford 18. Thos. Monroe Hardeman 19. S. Bostic 20. McFadden 21. Aaron Burleson 22. W. Anderson 23. J.M. Hill 24. Buntin 25. Whittaker [26. not present in original] 27. John M. Swisher 28. "Deaf" Smith 29. Sterling Robertson 30. Surgeon General Ewing 31. George Nail 32. Perry 33. Hobson 34. N.A. Byran., and Another state of this image held at New York Public Library has other text below the caption title and has the following text below image: copyright 1892 by S.B. Hill; from the painting by W.H. Huddle.
Publisher:
Samuel B. Hill
Subject (Geographic):
Texas
Subject (Name):
Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794-1876, Houston, Sam, 1793-1863, and Smith, Erastus, 1787-1837
Subject (Topic):
San Jacinto, Battle of, Tex., 1836, History, and Pictorial works
Includes laws of Mexico and of the state of Coahuila and Texas., BEIN Zc52 829au Copy 2: Bound with: Texas. An Act to establish a General Land Office, for the Republic of Texas. Columbia, 1836., BEIN Zc52 829au Copy 2: James Kerr's copy. Rebound, with printed and ms. text of several laws relating to land and colonization and newspaper clippings., BEIN Zc52 829au Copy 2: Imperfect: Title page wanting., and BEIN Zc52 829au Copy 2: Streeter no. 12.
Publisher:
Printed by Godwin B. Cotten
Subject (Geographic):
Mexico., Texas., and Texas
Subject (Topic):
Emigration and immigration law, Land grants, Emigration and immigration, and History
