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Description
View 1 (2000-0238) -- view 2 (2000-0238a) Print of Rothermel's painting of Henry Clay addressing the Senate features details of the chamber, the members including Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Thomas Hart Benton, and Vice President Millard Fillmore seated in the president's chair, and a crowded gallery in the background. Below the image: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by John M. Butler and Alfred Long in the Clerks Office in the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania." Below the title: "This Engraving from the Original Picture is respectfully dedicated to the People of the United States by the Publishers." The event depicted is Clay's argument for the "Compromise of 1850" or the "California compromise," to admit California into the Union as a free state in an attempt to prevent what became the American Civil War. Also have negatives: no. 27,862 (8 x 10 in.) b/w, color transparency, 29,066 (4 x 5 in.), 29,067 (4 x 5 in.)
Type
image
Format
Pictorial works. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 print : engraving ; 27 1/4 x 34 in. image on 30 1/4 x 36 7/8 in. sheet.
Identifier
(C)001379576CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVV-2830
Language
English
Subject
Clay, Henry,, 1877-1852--Pictorial works United States. Congress. Senate--Pictorial works Legislative bodies--Washington (D.C.) Portraits Prints Engravings
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