(CARICATURE) The Pedlar and his Pack or the Desperate Effort

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(CARICATURE.) The Pedlar and his Pack or the Desperate Effort, an Over Balance. Hand-colored engraved caricature, 250x360 mm, wide margins on three sides, the other just outside the platemark; marginal chips and tears, minor soiling (mostly at sheet edges). [Philadelphia, 1828]

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The image depicts John Binns -- the publisher of the famous anti-Jackson coffin broadside -- carrying several coffins on his back. Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams emerge from two of the coffins, with the latter holding on to a Presidential chair. The engraving is a commentary on the Presidential election of 1828. Binns had issued the famous coffin broadside in an attempt to hurt Jackson's campaign. The move, however, backfired, with voters recalling Jackson's heroism instead of the controversial deaths. Not in Murrell, A History of American Graphic Humor. Reilly, American Political Prints 1828-3; Weitenkampf page 21.