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
Print satirizes the United States politics; on left, a barrel labeled "White House gruel" guarded by an aproned man; a boy asks "Please, boss, I want some more."; a banner reading "annexation veto" hangs from his coat-tails; to right in background, a table full of others, speaking; one is labeled "Tex." Includes caricatures of John Tyler, Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson, and Henry Clay
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +152: Handwritten on recto below image: 1844.
Publisher:
printed & published by E. Jones
Subject (Geographic):
United States and Texas
Subject (Topic):
Presidents, Election, and Annexation to the United States
