Probably after Louis Maurer | Progressive Democracy – Prospect of a Smash Up

Title: Progressive Democracy – Prospect of a Smash Up

Artist: Probably after Louis Maurer (American (born Germany), Biebrich 1832–1932 New York)

Publisher: Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857–1907)

Subject: Abraham Lincoln (American, Hardin County, Kentucky 1809–1865 Washington, D.C.)

Sitter: Hannibal Hamlin (American, 1809–1891)

Sitter: John C. Breckinridge (American, 1821–1875)

Sitter: Stephen Arnold Douglas (American, 1813–1861)

Sitter: Hershel V. Johnson (American, 1812–1880)

Sitter: Joseph Lane (American, 1801–1881)

Sitter: James Buchanan, Jr. (American, 1791–1868)

Date: 1860

Medium: Hand-colored lithograph

Dimensions: Image: 8 1/4 × 16 5/16 in. (21 × 41.5 cm)
Sheet: 13 1/4 × 17 11/16 in. (33.7 × 45 cm)

Classification: Prints

Credit Line: Bequest of A. S. Colgate. 1962

Accession Number: 63.550.428

Inscription: In stone below image: "A Squatter Sovereign / Old Buck"
in stone below: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1860 by Currier & Ives in the Clerks Office in the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of NY"
in stone below: "PROGESSIVE DEMOCRACY – PROSPECT OF A SMASH UP"
in stone, lower center: "Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St N.Y."

Adele S. Colgate (American)

Peters 1672; Conningham 1970, 4960; Gale 5371

Harry T. Peters Currier & Ives, Printmakers to the American People. 2 vols., Garden City, NY, 1931, cat. no. 1672.

Rufus Rockwell Wilson Lincoln in Caricature: 165 Poster Cartoons and Drawings for the Press. 1945, pp 24-25.

Frank Weitenkampf Political Caricature in the United States. The New York Public Library, 1953, p. 124.

Frederick A. Conningham, Colin Simkin Currier & Ives prints; an illustrated check list. Crown Publishers, New York, 1970, cat. no. 4960.

Gale Research Company, Bernard F. Reilly Jr. Currier & Ives, A Catalogue Raisonné: A comprehensive catalogue of the lithographs of Nathaniel Currier, James Merritt Ives and Charles Currier, including ephemera associated with the firm, 1834-1907. 1984, cat. no. 5371.

Bernard F. Reilly Jr. American Political Prints, 1766-1876: A Catalogue of the Collections in the Library of Congress. G. K. Hall & Co., 1991, cat. no. 1860-37, pp. 447-48, ill.

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