Detail View: JCB Political Cartoons: A Peep into the Antifederal Club

Accession number: 
6421
Title: 
A Peep into the Antifederal Club
Place: 
New York
Date: 
1793, Aug. 16
Image technique: 
Etching
Image dimensions: 
28.7 x 43.8 cm.
Narrative description: 
Political rabble sit in a Democratic Society. Thomas Jefferson stands in the middle as he incites a devil, an obese drunkard, a Frenchman [French minister, Edmond Genet] singing the revolutionary song "Ça ira," anti-Federalist New York Governor George Clinton, New York Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, David Rittenhouse peering through his telescope at a satire of the "Creed of the Democratic Party," and a black man addressed as Citizen Mungo. This is a caricature of the "types" of people who aligned themselves with the Anti-Federalists.
References: 
Reilly & Lovell, "Thomas Jefferson: His Friends and Foes," Virginia Magazine of History, vol. 101, no. 1 (Jan. 1993), p. 133-157
Notes: 
"Price one half dollar," at lower right. At this time, political parties were still very new in the United States and had aligned into two opposing groups—those supporting the federal government were generally known as the Federalists.
Subject: 
North American political scene
Normalized date: 
1793