<p>Title: The prairie dog sickened at the sting of the hornet or a diplomatic puppet exhibiting his deceptions / J[ames] Akin, fect.
Creator(s): Akin, James, ca. 1773-1846, artist
</p><p>Date Created/Published: [Newburyport, Mass. : s.n.], 1804.
</p><p>Medium: 1 print on pale blue-grey laid paper : etching with watercolor ; 28.5 x 40.6 cm (sheet)
</p><p>Summary: James Akin's earliest-known signed cartoon, "The Prairie Dog" is an anti-Jefferson satire, relating to Jefferson's covert negotiations for the purchase of West Florida from Spain in 1804. Jefferson, as a scrawny dog, is stung by a hornet with Napoleon's head into coughing up "Two Millions" in gold coins, (the secret appropriation Jefferson sought from Congress for the purchase). On the right dances a man (possibly a French diplomat) with orders from French minister Talleyrand in his pocket and maps of East Florida and West Florida in his hand. He says, "A gull for the People."
</p><p>Notes: The print was probably published in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where Akin was working in 1804-6.
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Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:James_Akin" class="extiw" title="w:en:James Akin"><span title="American cartoonist">James Akin</span></a>
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1804
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