Name/Title
CartoonEntry/Object ID
2019.004.0001Description
1 political cartoon depicting a grossly exaggerated racially caricatured African American and Henry Clay conversing around a table with a candle in the middle of it.. Henry Clay is saying "Well my faithfull Charles look at poor bill how it is mutilated and killed by the Botts. Alas! our party is somewhat like Prince Rupert's Drops! The Whigs are like that empty bubble that gives philospohers such trouble; the one part broke the whole will fly And whits are cracked to find out why." The African American in this cartoon replies in Negro dialect, "yes massa Henry Clay dat is de fac. what de debit you leave your old friends de Deomcrats for? If you had support de ole General and not the renegade Johnny Q. you would now hab bin President. en you go and join wid de stock jobbers and sharers to get up anudder old Monster Bank which Captain Tyler he knock on de head and down you go wid it. Dus vaultin ambition jumps over de hoss and falls on tudder side as Shakspere says."
Benearh Clay and Charles is a coffin containing a baby labeled "Fiscal Agent died of the Botts".
The title "Dialogue Between Me and My Faithful Man Charles" is printed at the bottom over the line "Pub. by John Childs 90 Nassau St. New York".
Henry Clay is seated in a chair ad wearing a black suit with white shirt and crevat, He is holding his head in his hand.
Charles is standing and wearing a blue tail coat, white ruffled shirt and crecat, black breeches, stockings with large clocks, and black shoes.
The cartoon is framed in a new modern frame under acrylic and a green mat.Dimensions
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17-1/8 inWidth
21 inDimension Notes
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