The Republican Party Going to the Right House
Currier & Ives, American, 1857 - 1907
Louis Maurer, American (born Germany), 1832 - 1932
1860
Lithograph on paper
Sheet: 13 1/2 × 17 7/8 in. (34.3 × 45.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Sherman Adams, Class of 1920
PR.958.340.3
Publisher
Currier & Ives, New York
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on stone, above door, upper left: LUNATIC ASYLUM; inscribed, on stone, speech bubble, upper center: Now my friends I'm almost / in and the millennium is going / to begin so ask what you will / and it shall be granted.; inscribed, on stone, speech bubble, upper center: Oh! what a beautiful / man he is, I feel a / "passional attraction" / every time I see his / lovely face. [woman]; inscribed, on stone, speech bubble, upper center: I represent the free love / element and expect to / have free license, to carry / out its principles. [free love bearded man]; inscribed, on stone, speech bubble, upper center: I want religion / abolished and the / book of Mormon / made the standart [sic] / of morality. [Mormon]; inscribed, on stone, speech bubble, upper center: 'De white man hab / no rights dat cullud / pussons am bound to spect" I want dat / understood. [Freedman]; inscribed, on stone, speech bubble, upper left: I want womans rights / enforced and man / reduced in subjection / to her authority. [suffragette]; inscribed, on stone, speech bubble, upper left: I want everybody / to have a share of / everybody eles / property [ragged socialist]; inscribed, on stone, speech bubble, upper left: I want a hotel established / by government where people / that aint inclined to work, / can board free of expense / and be found in rum / and tobacco. [street urchin]; inscribed, on stone, speech bubble, upper left: I want guaranteed / to every Citizen the / right to examine every / other citizen's pockets / without interruption / by Policemen. [pickpocket]; inscribed, on stone, speech bubble, upper left: I want all the / stations houses / burned up and / the M.P.s killed / so that the bohoys / can run with the / machine and / have a muss / when they please. [Irish street tough]; inscribed, on stone, center left: Hold on to me Abe, / and we'll go in here / by the unanimous / consent of the people. [Horace Greeley]; inscribed, on stone, lower center margin: Entered according to the act of Congress in the year 1860, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of N.Y.; inscribed, on stone, lower center; THE REPUBLICAN PARTY GOING TO THE RIGHT HOUSE. / Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau S.t [t in superscript] N.Y.; stamped, in blue ink, lower center: APR.15.1861.; stamped, blindstamp, lower center: DEPOSITED IN / U.S. DISTRICT / CLERK'S OFFICE / SOUTHERN DISTRICT NEW YORK.; inscribed, in brown ink, lower center: 381 / Dec. 11, 1861; reverse, printed, on label, lower left: Presented to Dartmouth College / through the / Friends of Dartmouth Library / By Sherman Adams, Dartmouth, / Class of 1920. / November 1958.
Course History
HIST 18, US Political History of the 19th Century, Robert Bonner, Fall 2012
HIST 27, WGST 23, Gender and Power in American History from the Colonial Period to the Civil War, Leslie Butler, Spring 2012
HIST 18, Nineteenth Century American Politics, Robert Bonner, Spring 2014
WRIT 7.24, Past Imperfect, Cynthia Monroe, Spring 2019
WRIT 7.24, Past Imperfect, Cynthia Monroe, Spring 2019
Exhibition History
Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January-February, 1976.
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.
Provenance
Sherman Adams (1899-1986), Lincoln, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1958.
Catalogue Raisonne
Conningham (1949): 5114; Gale Research (1983): 5546
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