Mar 10, 2020 - Sale 2533

Sale 2533 - Lot 186

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(PRESIDENTS--1840.) Full Tilt for the Capitol. Lithograph, 13 3/4 x 18 1/4 inches; minor foxing and wear. New York: H.R. Robinson, [1840]
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President Van Buren is shown being trampled by a horse because of his hard-money policies. His vanquisher is Senator Nathaniel Tallmadge, who soon left Van Buren's Democratic Party to join the Whigs. Other figures include (left to right) Amos Kendall, William Marcy, Thomas Hart Benton, Levi Woodbury, and Francis Preston Blair. Reilly 1840-38. 3 in OCLC, and none traced at auction.