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N. Currier - "The Great American Buck Hunt of 1856"

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Political Memorabilia Start Price:350.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 700.00 USD
N. Currier -  The Great American Buck Hunt of 1856
Campaign lithograph published by Nathaniel Currier, 1856 favoring Millard Fillmore, titled "The Great American Buck Hunt of 1856". A "buck" (James Buchanan) runs toward the White House, as the two rival candidates take aim at him with their shotguns. John Fremont's gun explodes as he struggles to free himself from a pool of "Black Mud." On the far left, his two abolitionist supporters Henry Ward Beecher and editor Horace Greeley are also mired in an "Abolition Bog.", scarce [Image: 15 1/2" H x 10" W; Sheet: 11 1/4" H x 16 1/4" W]. Age-toning, foxing, laid down on linen backing, and tipped to mount at extreme top edges.