Add to ORKGThe artist conveys some of the profound disappointment and anger among Henry Clay's many supporters at the nomination of Zachary Taylor at the June 1848 Whig convention in Philadelphia. The convention's act was seen as a betrayal of the elder Whig statesman. In a scene based on act 3, scene 1 of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," the artist portrays Clay's opponents as treacherous conspirators stalking the unsuspecting statesman. Clay is pictured seated in the library of his estate at Ashland in Kentucky, reading the New York "Tribune," whose editor Horace Greeley was a Clay stalwart. Ten men with raised daggers prepare to attack him from behind. These include various Whig powers Daniel Webster, editor James Watson Webb, former New York mayor ...
Another venomous attack on the Lincoln administration by the artist of "The Commander-in-Chief Conci...
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A cartoon on the defeat of Whig Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election, ascribing his loss of ...
Henry Clay's November 1847 address to a public meeting in Lexington, Kentucky, condemning the Polk a...
A cryptic satire critical of Lewis Cass and incumbent President James K. Polk. The work probably app...
The artist lionizes Kentucky senator Henry Clay, author of the Compromise of 1850, and slams his pol...
A severe split within the Whig ranks, between partisans of Henry Clay and those of Zachary Taylor, p...
Returning to Kentucky in the spring of 1829 after four years as secretary of state in the administra...
Henry Clay is the hunter, and various Democrats his quarry. Clay wears a fringed buckskin outfit and...
The Papers of Henry Clay span the crucial first half of the nineteenth century in American history. ...
Edward Williams Clay (1799-1857) was the most prolific political caricaturist in America before the ...
The colored engraved broadside features at its top a portrait of the Whig candidate for President. I...
A fond yet sardonic tribute to the aging Massachusetts statesman Daniel Webster, whose final bid for...
A figurative portrayal of the 1844 presidential contest as a cock-fight, in which Whig candidate Hen...
The artist's portrayal of Harrison's rout of Van Buren reflects strong Whig confidence late in the p...
Another venomous attack on the Lincoln administration by the artist of "The Commander-in-Chief Conci...
Another campaign portrait of Whig presidential candidate Henry Clay. In an oval frame, surrounded by...
A cartoon on the defeat of Whig Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election, ascribing his loss of ...
Henry Clay's November 1847 address to a public meeting in Lexington, Kentucky, condemning the Polk a...
A cryptic satire critical of Lewis Cass and incumbent President James K. Polk. The work probably app...
The artist lionizes Kentucky senator Henry Clay, author of the Compromise of 1850, and slams his pol...
A severe split within the Whig ranks, between partisans of Henry Clay and those of Zachary Taylor, p...
Returning to Kentucky in the spring of 1829 after four years as secretary of state in the administra...
Henry Clay is the hunter, and various Democrats his quarry. Clay wears a fringed buckskin outfit and...
The Papers of Henry Clay span the crucial first half of the nineteenth century in American history. ...
Edward Williams Clay (1799-1857) was the most prolific political caricaturist in America before the ...
The colored engraved broadside features at its top a portrait of the Whig candidate for President. I...
A fond yet sardonic tribute to the aging Massachusetts statesman Daniel Webster, whose final bid for...
A figurative portrayal of the 1844 presidential contest as a cock-fight, in which Whig candidate Hen...
The artist's portrayal of Harrison's rout of Van Buren reflects strong Whig confidence late in the p...
Another venomous attack on the Lincoln administration by the artist of "The Commander-in-Chief Conci...
Another campaign portrait of Whig presidential candidate Henry Clay. In an oval frame, surrounded by...
A cartoon on the defeat of Whig Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election, ascribing his loss of ...