still image Etchings 1790-1800. gmgpc Political cartoons 1790-1800. gmgpc [Philadelphia], 1798. eng A crude portrayal of a fight on the floor of Congress between Vermont Representative Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold of Connecticut. The row was originally prompted by an insulting reference to Lyon on Griswold's part. The interior of Congress Hall is shown, with the Speaker Jonathan Dayton and Clerk Jonathan W. Condy (both seated), Chaplain Ashbel Green (in profile on the left), and several others looking on, as Griswold, armed with a cane, kicks Lyon, who grasps the former's arm and raises a pair of fireplace tongs to strike him. Below are the verses: "He in a trice struck Lyon thrice / Upon his head, enrag'd sir, / Who seiz'd the tongs to ease his wrongs, / And Griswold thus engag'd, sir." Title appears as it is written on the item. The Library has three states of the print. Dayton, Condy, and Green are identified by keyed references in the (plate) margins of the second and third states. In all three "Congress Hall, in Philada. Feb.15.1798" is inscribed in the lower right corner. In the second and third this is followed by "S.E.Cor.6th & Chesnut St." In the third only, the number 17 appears in the upper right. Weitenkampf lists four states, some of which (including two of the Library's impressions) appear to be later restrikes. The call numbers are: PC/US - 1798.A000, no. 1 (A size) (first state); PC/US - 1798.A000, no. 2 (A size) (second state) (dimensions 16.5 x 22.1 cm; PC/US - 1798.A000, no. 3 (A size) (third state) (dimensions 16.6 x 22.4 cm) (inscribed upper right "presented by M. New June 17th 1868." Carson impression first state annotated by John McAllister. Inscribed on original mat of Carson collection impression: This copy belonged to John McAllister, the antiquarian, given to his daughter Agnes Young McAllister. The writing is his. McAllister reprinted this plate, along with others by Birch, after Peale, etc., but this is the oldest copy I have found. MS Carson, April 24, 1943. Fowble, Murrell, Weitenkampf, Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress. Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1798-1. Exhibited: "Creating the United States", Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2010. Exhibited: "Creating the United States", Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2010-2011. Condy, Jonathan Williams, 1770-1828. Dayton, Jonathan, 1760-1824. Griswold, Roger, 1762-1812. Lyon, Matthew, 1749-1822. United States. Congress--1790-1800. Fighting--1790-1800. American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.31832 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19356 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19357 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.15707 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a05342 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a11734 No known restrictions on publication.