The Last Card Tip Overthrown
date: label: Date made
content: 1840
name: label: depicted
content: Glentworth, James B.
label: depicted
content: Whiting, James R.
label: depicted
content: Morris, Robert H.
label: maker
content: Robinson, Henry R.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This print is a satire on the controversy surrounding charges of election fraud against New York State tobacco inspector James B. Glentworth and other Whigs during the election of 1838. The allegations were made two years after the election by New York Federal District Attorney Benjamin F. Butler, a Democrat. Whigs felt that Glentworth was tried only to make their party look bad and promote Democratic incumbent, Martin Van Buren. The print’s includes a quote from Van Buren, where he references this incident as “a card yet to be played” in his reelection strategy.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The publisher of this print is Henry R. Robinson (1827-1877). Robinson worked in New York, and had a store to sell his prints. In 1842, he was arrested for selling obscene pictures and books leading to the September 28, 1842 court case, People vs H. R. Robinson found in the District Attorney Indictment Papers, Municipal Archives. He was politically affiliated with the anti-Jackson Whig party which was made obvious by the wig silhouette used in 1838 as an advertising logo for his shop.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Furnishings
label: Subject
content: Communication, letter writing
label: Subject
content: U.S. National Government, judiciary
label: Subject
content: Political Parties
label: Subject
content: Pets
label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1840-1849
label: Subject
content: Political Caricatures
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Peters Political Prints
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content: Art
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.3418
label: catalog number
content: 60.3418
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 10 1/8 in x 15 3/8 in; 25.7175 cm x 39.0525 cm