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Badge for Harrison Convention

George Girdler Smith (American, 1795–1859)
1840

Medium/Technique Engraving printed on satin
Credit Line Gift of E. H. Greenleaf
Accession NumberM7971
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Stauffer 1446
DescriptionIssued on the occasion of the Whig Party convention in Boston, on September 10, during the 1840 presidential campaign.
Signed In plate, below upper vignette: G. G. Smith
InscriptionsIn plate, above upper vignette: Ward 5 / While We Honour Living Merit, / Let us not Forget the Claims / of the Departed.
In plate, below upper vignette: Engd. by G. G. Smith
In plate, below lower vignette: Harrison Convention, Sept. 10. 1840.
In plate, at lower left: Published and sold by G. G. Smith
In plate, at lower right: corner Washn. & Franklin Sts. Boston
ProvenancePDP Register entry: Date acquired, 10/3/1891