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
Scene of men chopping, hewing, and carrying wood, with two figures embracing at center. In the lower right corner, a woman feeds a baby whose foot a seated man kisses; another young child leans on the woman. The scene is set among trees with fronds an...
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +116: Imperfect: bled at foot, with loss of fourth line of text and publisher's statement. Watercolor hand-coloring.
Publisher:
Chez Bulla, rue St. Jacques No. 38 et chez Ladvocat, Libraire, palais Royal, galerie de bois, Nos. 197 et 198
Scene of men chopping, hewing, and carrying wood, with two figures embracing at center. In the lower right corner, a woman feeds a baby whose foot a seated man kisses; another young child leans on the woman. The scene is set among trees with fronds an...
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +116: Imperfect: bled at foot, with loss of fourth line of text and publisher's statement. Watercolor hand-coloring.
Publisher:
Chez Bulla, rue St. Jacques No. 38 et chez Ladvocat, Libraire, palais Royal, galerie de bois, Nos. 197 et 198
Subject: Central figure on horseback, Major Samuel Ringgold, falls backward with saber falling from hand; horseman, right, turns toward him, as do other soldiers in distance; horseman, left and behind, holds up hand; with fallen soldier, foreground
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Virtue & Co. Publishers
Subject (Geographic):
Texas.
Subject (Name):
Ringgold, Samuel, 1796-1846 and Ringgold, Samuel, 1796-1846.
Subject (Topic):
Palo Alto, Battle of, Tex., 1846, Campaigns and battles, Mexican War, 1846-1848, American, Soldiers, and Horses
Print repeats three images of a trout, one below the other, with a line of the title text (divided into three lines) below each image; fish face left. Text in red ink
Description:
"Designed by Whitehead & Whitehead and printed on Fabriano paper in an edition of 800 copies by W. Thomas Taylor as the Book Club of Texas annual broadside for 1989."
Publisher:
Book Club of Texas
Subject (Geographic):
Texas.
Subject (Topic):
Fishing, Trout fishing, Broadsides, and Linoleum block printing, American
Collection of approximately 76 drawings and sketches made by Brown in watercolor, oil, pastel, wash, pencil and ink. Thirty-one drawings depict army forts and western scenery, including Ringgold Barracks, Los Morus, Port Isabel, and San Jose, Texas; F...
Description:
Brown, an army surgeon and self-taught artist, served at several military posts in Texas and the Pacific Northwest in the 1850s. During the Civil War he served with the Army of the Potomac and in the Assistant Surgeon General's office in Louisville.
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon., Texas., Washington (State), Texas, Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.), Fort Dalles (Dalles, Or.), Fort Naches (Or.), Fort Ringgold (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Fort Vancouver (Wash.), Hood, Mount (Or.), Oregon, Port Isabel (Tex.), and Washington
Subject (Name):
Brown, Joseph B., 1822-1891., Lee, Robert E. 1807-1870. (Robert Edward),, and United States. Army
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Wars, Missions, Spanish, Pacific Coast Indians, Wars with, 1847-1865, Military life, Voyages to the Pacific coast, and Description and travel
Collection of approximately 76 drawings and sketches made by Brown in watercolor, oil, pastel, wash, pencil and ink. Thirty-one drawings depict army forts and western scenery, including Ringgold Barracks, Los Morus, Port Isabel, and San Jose, Texas; F...
Description:
Brown, an army surgeon and self-taught artist, served at several military posts in Texas and the Pacific Northwest in the 1850s. During the Civil War he served with the Army of the Potomac and in the Assistant Surgeon General's office in Louisville.
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon., Texas., Washington (State), Texas, Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.), Fort Dalles (Dalles, Or.), Fort Naches (Or.), Fort Ringgold (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Fort Vancouver (Wash.), Hood, Mount (Or.), Oregon, Port Isabel (Tex.), and Washington
Subject (Name):
Brown, Joseph B., 1822-1891., Lee, Robert E. 1807-1870. (Robert Edward),, and United States. Army
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Wars, Missions, Spanish, Pacific Coast Indians, Wars with, 1847-1865, Military life, Voyages to the Pacific coast, and Description and travel
Scene set in a landscape dotted with palm trees, mountains and water in background. At center are two men embracing, two other men with hands clasped, a woman holding a baby, and a dog. Around these figures are men hewing, chopping wood, and plowing. ...
Description:
Title and publication statement engraved below image. Artist name from M.P. Kelsey, Engraved prints of Texas, 1554-1900, p. 400.
Publisher:
À l'Imprie. Lithogque. de C. Motte, rue des Marais
