The Pedlar and his Pack or the Desperate effort, an Over Balance

by James Akins, attributed

$850 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Philadelphia? : 1828. Political print, 9 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches, etching and aquatint, with watercolor, on wove paper, picturing a satire on the reverse impact of John Binns's anti-Jackson 'coffin-handbill' campaign during the presidential race of 1828. Editor-publisher Binns supports on his back a large load of coffins, upon which are figures of Henry Clay and incumbent President John Quincy Adams. Binns: 'I must have an extra dose of Treasury-pap, or down go the coffins Harry, for I feel faint

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