Sep 26, 2019 - Sale 2517

Sale 2517 - Lot 177

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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(PRESIDENTS--1828.) [Akin, James; artist?] The Pedlar and his Pack, or the Desperate Effort, an Over Balance. Hand-colored aquatint, 11x 17 1/2 inches; a few tears and chips outside plate mark, mount remnants on verso, light folds. [Philadelphia, 1828]
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Philadelphia publisher John Binns had accused candidate Andrew Jackson of murder using a series of "Coffin Broadsides." Binns is here shown struggling under the weight of these coffins, and the added weight of Jackson's unsuccessful opponents Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams (clutching the presidential chair). Reilly 1828-3.