A "Dodge" That Wont Work
Currier & Ives, American, 1857 - 1907, John Cameron, American, 1829 - 1862
1872
Lithograph on paper
Image: 9 7/16 × 13 7/8 in. (24 × 35.2 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/4 × 16 in. (31.1 × 40.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Sherman Adams, Class of 1920
PR.958.340.7
Publisher
Currier & Ives, New York
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
19th century
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
Inscribed, on stone, speech bubble, upper center: Of course Sam and / Ceasar, you'll vot for / me your old friend / Horace Greeley?; inscribed, on stone, speech bubble, upper right: No M.r [r in superscript] Greeley we cant / vote fore you, for behind / you we see Jeff Davis / and behind him is the / old lash and bondage.; inscribed, on stone, speech bubble, upper right: We vote, as all true hearted colored men / will vote; for M.r [r in superscript] Lincoln's friend General Grant / who conquered the rebellion & secured our freedom.; signed, on stone, within image, lower right: J. CAMERON; inscribed, on stone, lower left margin: PUBLISHED BY CURRIER & IVES; inscribed, on stone, lower center margin: Entered according to the act of Congress in the year 1872 by Currier & Ives in the Office of the LIbrarian of Congress at Washington.; inscribed, on stone, lower right margin: 125 NASSAU ST. NEW YORK; titled, on stone, lower center: A "DODGE" THAT WONT WORK.
Course History
WRIT 7.24, Past Imperfect, Cynthia Monroe, Spring 2019
WRIT 7.24, Past Imperfect, Cynthia Monroe, Spring 2019
HIST 18, Nineteenth Century American Politics, Robert Bonner, Spring 2014
HIST 18, US Political History of the 19th Century, Robert Bonner, Fall 2012
Exhibition History
No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in conjunction with the Humanities Institute, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 6-December 9, 2007.
Fred Wilson, So Much Trouble in the World - Believe It or Not!, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 4-December 11, 2005.
Publication History
Barbara Thompson, Fred Wilson, So Much Trouble in the World - Believe It or Not!, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2005.
Provenance
Sherman Adams (1899-1986), Lincoln, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1958.
Catalogue Raisonne
Conningham (1949): 1594; Gale Research (1983):1733
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