Image:Zachary Taylor - Cock of the walk.jpg

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Description

Cock of the walk. "The title refers to Whig candidate Zachary Taylor as the probable victor in the 1848 presidential contest. Taylor is portrayed as a victorious fighting cock, standing over his dead opponent, another cock with the head of Democratic candidate Lewis Cass."

Source

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a13630

Date

1848

Author

Probably drawn by E. F. Durang

Permission

PD (published in U.S. prior to 1923)

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