File:Political Quixotism 93v.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file(1,024 × 770 pixels, file size: 567 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Author
Ezra Bisbee, publisher
Title
Political Quixotism shewing the consequences of sleeping in patent magic spectacles The diplomatic Hercules, attacking the poitical hydra / / from a very big picter in the Jinerals Bed-Room, draw'd off from Nater by Zek Downing, Historical Painter to Uncle Jack & Jineral Jackson.
Description
Print shows President Jackson, sword in hand, during a nightmare, fighting a hydra with many fierce heads labeled "U.S. Bank", "Deposits", "Bribery", "Pensions", "[...] of the People", and "Corruption of the [...]"; he cries out "Stamp the horrid Monster!!! Crush it!!! Nick Biddle!!! Hell & the Devil!!! Bribery & Corruption!!! Assasination [sic]!! Fire!! Murder. Murder!! Where are you Major?" He is being restrained by "Major" Jack Downing, who implores him to "Cum along to Bed agin, Jineral, I tell you Biddle aint here, nor the devil nother as I no on." A bed and a chair with a candle on it appear in the background on the upper left.
Date [1833?]
Medium 1 print : hand-colored lithograph
Dimensions sheet 32 x 42.9 cm.
institution QS:P195,Q131454
Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Current location
Published: N.Y. : Published by E. Bisbee, 95 Canal St., N.Y.,
Accession number

Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-pga-00093 (digital file from original print)

Call Number: PGA - Bisbee (E.)--Political Quixotism ... (B size) [P&P]
Notes

Title from item.

Purchase; Jonathan Greenberg, Inc.; (PR 13 CN 1999:065)

Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
Source/Photographer
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID pga.00093.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

العربية  беларуская (тарашкевіца)  বাংলা  čeština  Deutsch  English  español  فارسی  suomi  français  galego  עברית  magyar  Bahasa Indonesia  italiano  日本語  lietuvių  македонски  മലയാളം  Nederlands  polski  português  português do Brasil  română  русский  sicilianu  slovenčina  slovenščina  Türkçe  українська  简体中文  繁體中文  +/−

Permission
(Reusing this file)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on reproduction.
Other versions

Licensing

[edit]
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

Public domain works must be out of copyright in both the United States and in the source country of the work in order to be hosted on the Commons. If the work is not a U.S. work, the file must have an additional copyright tag indicating the copyright status in the source country.
Note: This tag should not be used for sound recordings.PD-1923Public domain in the United States//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Political_Quixotism_93v.jpg
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current21:21, 13 October 2016Thumbnail for version as of 21:21, 13 October 20161,024 × 770 (567 KB)Slowking4 (talk | contribs){{artwork |Title = Political Quixotism shewing the consequences of sleeping in patent magic spectacles The diplomatic Hercules, attacking the poitical hydra / / from a very big picter in the Jinerals Bed-Room, draw'd off from Nater by Zek Downing, His...

Metadata