695960 Dignified retirement: Parody on the House that Jack Built..., c.1809 (litho) by American School, (19th century); 45x23 cm; Gilder Lehrman Collection, New York, USA; (add.info.: A parody of the nursery rhyme styled upon eighteenth century children\'s chapbooks making fun of Jefferson\'s retirement at a time of national crisis. The figures are rough allegories of Jefferson (alternately a king then a priest, retiring to a "Mountain" [Monticello] to study philosophy), the American navy (de-commissioned by Jefferson), the Embargo, the British Fleet and the American volunteer army. The woodcut of the coach is printed upside down to represent how the Embargo "has turned all things up side down, and stopped the wheels of national prosperity." The title may come from Peter Pencil\'s 1809 caricature "Non Intercourse or Dignified Retirement" (Noble E. Cunningham, Jr., The Image of Thomas Jefferson in the Public Eye, p. 121.) Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd President of the United States of America.); 穢 Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History ; American, out of copyright.