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The Modern Hercules, Cleansing the Augean Stable. Georgian era 1714 - ...

Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)

[Cut of broom] To sweep the Augean Stable. For President Andrew Jackso...

Political campaign.; Imprint 2.; On verso: A. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 136... More

To sweep the Augean Stable. For President, Andrew Jackson. For Vice-Pr...

Election ticket for Jackson delegates from various Ohio counties in the presidential contest of 1828, illustrated with an image of a straw broom. The broom, a traditional pictorial and literary symbol of reform... More

Cleansing the Augean stable

A pro-Whig satire, envisioning the cleansing of the "Augean Stable" of government corruption by presidential candidate Henry Clay and other Whigs. The title derives from one of the twelve mythical labors of Her... More