<i>Title:</i> The  prairie dog sickened at the sting of the hornet or a diplomatic puppet exhibiting his deceptions
<p><i>Abstract:</i> 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."
<i>Physical description:</i> 1 print on pale blue-grey laid paper : etching with watercolor ; 28.5 x 40.6 cm (sheet)
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<i>Notes:</i> The print was probably published in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where Akin was working in 1804-6.; Title appears as written on print.; Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1804-1.; Trimmed to within plate.; Exhibited: "Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis Clark and the Revealing of America,"Library of Congress, 2003. DLC; J[ames] Akin, fect.
Popular Graphic Arts
1804
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