Title:
Things as they are
Creator/Contributor:
Perkins, artist (artist)
Serrell & Perkins (active ca. 1850), lithographer and publisher (lithographer and publisher)
Elton, Robert H. (active ca. 1848-ca. 1850), undetermined (undetermined)
Date:
[not before 1849]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0446 (variant)--C
Format:
print on paper: lithograph
35.7 x 53.1 cm.
Content/Description:
Satirical image of Gold Rush in California showing armed men digging, fighting foreigners, etc. Caricature of President James
K. Polk as bird carrying pick and bag of money flies with other bird-men (his cabinet) towards California. Dialog balloons.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LR, within image): Perkins; (LR): Serrell & Perkins Lith. & pub., 75 Nassau St[reet], N[ew] Y[ork];
(LR): R.H. Elton, 90 Nassau St[reet], N[ew] Y[ork]. Date 1849 within image.
Subjects:
Arms & armaments;
Equipment;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Gold rushes;
Manners & customs;
Mining
Genre/Format:
Caricatures;
Cartoons (Commentary);
Lithographs