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Stump Speaking.
One of the three engravings making up George Caleb Bickham's famed 'Election Series' (comprising 'The County Election', 'Stump Speaking' and 'The Verdict of the People') that depicts a thematic overview of the electioneering process, from the campaign, through the casting of the votes to the final outcome of the race.
The central character, the orator, clad in a pristine white suit but, in Bickham's own words 'grown gray in the pursuit of office and the service of the party' directs his speech to a colourful crowd of locals. The diversity of the audience adds an interesting and rich quality to the picture: plainly dressed farmers, upright gentlemen with entranced faces, bored young men with drooping eyelids, fidgeting children, and even family pets witness the proceedings.
George Caleb Bingham enjoyed a national reputation for his genre pictures of small town and river life (Jolly Flatboatmen in Port, Raftsmen Playing Cards), and portraits, as well as for his politically themed paintings. He was himself a politician. He ran for the Missouri State House twice before the Civil War, winning a seat in 1848. He served as wartime Missouri State Treasurer, 1862-65, and became the Missouri Adjutant General in 1875. He had always been a strong Union supporter, serving, in spite of very bad health, a short hitch in the U.S. Army at the outbreak of the Civil War.
Mezzotint, printed in colours and finished by hand. Engraved by John Sartain (1808-1897).
Bloch, Raisonne, p.220; Husch 'George Caleb Bingham's The County Election: Whig Tribute to the Will of the People' in The American Art Journal/Volume XIX, No. 4 pp.5-22, 1987.
The central character, the orator, clad in a pristine white suit but, in Bickham's own words 'grown gray in the pursuit of office and the service of the party' directs his speech to a colourful crowd of locals. The diversity of the audience adds an interesting and rich quality to the picture: plainly dressed farmers, upright gentlemen with entranced faces, bored young men with drooping eyelids, fidgeting children, and even family pets witness the proceedings.
George Caleb Bingham enjoyed a national reputation for his genre pictures of small town and river life (Jolly Flatboatmen in Port, Raftsmen Playing Cards), and portraits, as well as for his politically themed paintings. He was himself a politician. He ran for the Missouri State House twice before the Civil War, winning a seat in 1848. He served as wartime Missouri State Treasurer, 1862-65, and became the Missouri Adjutant General in 1875. He had always been a strong Union supporter, serving, in spite of very bad health, a short hitch in the U.S. Army at the outbreak of the Civil War.
Mezzotint, printed in colours and finished by hand. Engraved by John Sartain (1808-1897).
Bloch, Raisonne, p.220; Husch 'George Caleb Bingham's The County Election: Whig Tribute to the Will of the People' in The American Art Journal/Volume XIX, No. 4 pp.5-22, 1987.
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One of the three engravings making up George Caleb Bickham's famed 'Election Series' (comprising 'The County Election', 'Stump Speaking' and 'The Verdict of the People') that depicts a thematic overview of the electioneering process, from the campaign, through the casting of the votes to the final outcome of the race.
The central character, the orator, clad in a pristine white suit but, in Bickham's own words 'grown gray in the pursuit of office and the service of the party' directs his speech to a colourful crowd of locals. The diversity of the audience adds an interesting and rich quality to the picture: plainly dressed farmers, upright gentlemen with entranced faces, bored young men with drooping eyelids, fidgeting children, and even family pets witness the proceedings.
George Caleb Bingham enjoyed a national reputation for his genre pictures of small town and river life (Jolly Flatboatmen in Port, Raftsmen Playing Cards), and portraits, as well as for his politically themed paintings. He was himself a politician. He ran for the Missouri State House twice before the Civil War, winning a seat in 1848. He served as wartime Missouri State Treasurer, 1862-65, and became the Missouri Adjutant General in 1875. He had always been a strong Union supporter, serving, in spite of very bad health, a short hitch in the U.S. Army at the outbreak of the Civil War.
Mezzotint, printed in colours and finished by hand. Engraved by John Sartain (1808-1897).
Bloch, Raisonne, p.220; Husch 'George Caleb Bingham's The County Election: Whig Tribute to the Will of the People' in The American Art Journal/Volume XIX, No. 4 pp.5-22, 1987.
The central character, the orator, clad in a pristine white suit but, in Bickham's own words 'grown gray in the pursuit of office and the service of the party' directs his speech to a colourful crowd of locals. The diversity of the audience adds an interesting and rich quality to the picture: plainly dressed farmers, upright gentlemen with entranced faces, bored young men with drooping eyelids, fidgeting children, and even family pets witness the proceedings.
George Caleb Bingham enjoyed a national reputation for his genre pictures of small town and river life (Jolly Flatboatmen in Port, Raftsmen Playing Cards), and portraits, as well as for his politically themed paintings. He was himself a politician. He ran for the Missouri State House twice before the Civil War, winning a seat in 1848. He served as wartime Missouri State Treasurer, 1862-65, and became the Missouri Adjutant General in 1875. He had always been a strong Union supporter, serving, in spite of very bad health, a short hitch in the U.S. Army at the outbreak of the Civil War.
Mezzotint, printed in colours and finished by hand. Engraved by John Sartain (1808-1897).
Bloch, Raisonne, p.220; Husch 'George Caleb Bingham's The County Election: Whig Tribute to the Will of the People' in The American Art Journal/Volume XIX, No. 4 pp.5-22, 1987.
