[Clay, Edward Williams]: [Jackson, Andrew]:

$4,500 · Offered by William Reese Company

GRAND VIRGINIA REEL AND SCAMPERDOWN AT THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON. ALL THE WORLD COMPLETELY DISCUMGALLIGUMFRICATED [caption title]. A rare political print commenting on President Andrew Jackson's warlike posturing with France over the issue of reparations for the Napoleonic Wars. In his first term, Jackson had negotiated a treaty with France under which the European nation agreed to pay the United States 25,000,000 Francs in recompense for depredations on American shipping during the Napoleonic Wars. When the money was not forthcoming, Jackson threatened military action in order to force payment, which prompted the French to demand a retraction before reopening negotiations. Tensions increased and military preparations began in earnest before France was eventually pressured into accepting a half-hearted apology from Jackson and paying out the reparations forthwith.The present image, produced by the dynamic anti-Jacksonian duo of artist Edward Williams Clay and lithographer H.R. Robinson, portrays the seventh president's glee upon receiving the money. An ecstatic Jackson, equipped with his military cap and saber, dances and waves a heavy bag full of Francs, asking his "first fiddle" Van Buren and his cabinet to "give us a war dance!" Louis Philippe has been knocked on his royal derrière, while a gallery of foreign dignitaries and figures watch on with a mixture of amusement and fear, such as King William who exclaims "Go it Old Hickory! Shiver my topsails if Louis Philippe isn

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