The National barber - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a sailor, identitied elsewhere as Samuel W. Dewey, having sawn the head of Andrew Jackson off the figurehead of the U.S.S. Constitution, passes it to another sailor awaiting in a rowboat alongside the ship. An eagle flying overhead holds in its beak a liberty cap labeled "The Constitution must be preserved."

Caption continues: "Nat, pass along the knowledge box, that son of a gun snores so loud, he will wake the Commodore."
Purchase; Goodspeeds Book Shop, Inc.; (DLC/PP-1990:118)
Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: "American Faces : A Cultural History of Portraiture and Identity" at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, February - April 2017.