Who'll Have the Specie? printed title below image

by Henry R. Robinson

$2,250 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

New York: Printed & Publd. by H. R. Robinson, 1837. First edition. Hand-colored lithograph, 12 x 17 7/8 inches image size: 10 x 14 3/4 inches . President Van Buren presented as a monkey taunts British Prime Minister Lord Woodbury a bulldog chained to his dog house while French King Louis Phillippe a cock comments, their concern being the recent American rules requiring trade duties and tax payments of less than 10 to be paid in gold and specie.

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