All fours : important state of the game -- the knave about to be lost.
Opposing candidates Martin Van Buren (Democrat) and William Henry Harrison (Whig) face each other across a card table. Behind Van Buren stands his vice-presidential running mate, Richard M. Johnson. Behind Harrison is incumbent president Andrew Jackson, who smokes a clay pipe and stands on tip-toe to spy on Harrison's hand. On the wall above the table is a depiction of the Battle of the Thames, probably the version by Edward Williams Clay.; Attributed to Edward Williams Clay.; "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1836 by H.R. Robinson, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States of the Southern District of New York."
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