Bibframe Work
TitleNorth Bend game cockTypeStill ImageCollectionNoteForms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)SummaryA Whig campaign print glorifying presidential candidate William Henry Harrison. The title derives from the candidate's farm on the North Bend of the Ohio River. The game cock has a dual significance: as an allusion to Harrison's military virtue and as a Whig party symbol. A formidable-looking gamecock stands with one foot on a large ball (inscribed "Stop That Party Bawl") and crows, "Tippecanoo Canoo-oo-oo." The giant ball was a Democratic symbol initially associated with Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton. (See "N. Tom O' Logical Studies," no. 1837-14.) In the sky overhead is an eagle with an American flag and the words, "The Nation Is Whig! Tell Chapman to Crow." In the middle ground is a log cabin, and in the distance a neoclassical building--presumably the White House--flying a flag with the motto, "Union of the Whigs for the sake of the Union." The print is signed "Nosey," evidently another of Napoleon Sarony's pseudonyms. The broad-crayon lithographic technique is a distinctive feature of Sarony prints like "The New Era or the Effects of a Standing Army" (no. 1840-3). The present work is dedicated to "Robert C. Wetmore Esq. President of the North Bend Association of New York" by the publisherAuthorized Access PointNorth Bend game cock