Original Antique Currier & Ives Print Death of Zachary Taylor Kentucky President

Title: Death of Genl. Z. Taylor / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.
Creator(s): N. Currier (Firm),
Date Created/Published: New York : N. Currier, 1850.
Medium: Lithograph.
Summary: Taylor on his death bed, in the White House, July, 1850.
Size: 10'' x 14''

History about the Death of Taylor:

Three burial vaults, two funeral processions a thousand miles apart, and a daytrip to quash an assertion of foul playthe remains of Zachary Taylor, the only U.S. president laid to rest in a VA national cemetery, have taken an especially tortuous path to their resting place in Louisville, Kentucky.

On a sizzling fourth of July in 1850 in the nations capital, he attended a ceremony at the unfinished Washington Monument and afterward took refreshment with raw vegetables, cherries, milk, and water. The following day he fell ill with cholera, transmitted in the liquids he drank. He died on July 9, 1850, at age 65.