(JACKSON ANDREW) [Clay Edward Williams; artist] The Model of

Sale 2483 - Lot 162

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(JACKSON, ANDREW.) [Clay, Edward Williams; artist?] The Model of a Republican President. Hand-colored lithograph, 12 3/4x18 3/4 inches; light diagonal fold, 1-inch repaired closed tear in right margin. New York: A. Imbert, [1834?]

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President Jackson had allegedly told Joseph Bonaparte "I have taken your brother for my model." He is here depicted as a preening dictator ("I feel like Napoleon, I thirst for glory!"), trying on a Napoleonic bicorne while Vice President Van Buren and other sycophants ply him with flattery. None others traced at auction since 1964. Barber, Andrew Jackson, #125; Peters, America on Stone, page 234 ("an extremely interesting and scarce cartoon").