3493180 Cider Making, 1840-41 (oil on canvas) by Mount, William Sidney (1807-68); 68.6x86.7 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: Commissioned by the Whig leader Charles Augustus Davis, this refers to the US presidential election of 1840. The simplicity of the cider makers evoke the Whig candidate, war-hero William Henry Harrison, promoted as a common man who preferred a log cabin and hard cider to the reputed excesses of Maartin Van Buren\'s Democratic White House, whose disastrous Jacksonian financial policies were considered responsible for the 1837 panic. ).