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Lot 20H: "LIKE CROMWELL—NOT" ANTIQUE 1886 Harper's Weekly Full Page Thomas Nast Cartoon Signed In Image Lampooning President Cleveland

Est: $35 USD - $75 USDPassed
The Book BarnEdgewater, FL, USFebruary 20, 2018

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Description

ANTIQUE 1886 Harper's Weekly Full Page Thomas Nast Woodblock Art Cartoon, Signed In Image, Lampooning President Grover Cleveland. It is suitable for framing. Signed in image. Thomas Nast Full Page Woodblock Political Cartoon From March 13, 1886 Issue of Harper's Weekly.

Front Page woodblock Cartoon With Harper’s Masthead, from that Harper's Weekly issue, Titled: "LIKE CROMWELL—NOT "LIKE CHARLES THE FIRST MR. EDMUNDS!" As shown in scan(s). The image mocks President Cleveland dressed as Oliver Cromwell claiming his sole responsibility is to the people while the Democratic Party in (secret) "Star Chamber" plots Politics-as-usual.

The image measures approximately 11 1/2 inches high X 9 inches wide plus borders & Harper's Weekly masthead. Left edge shows removal marks/chipping, other edges show light wear with closed tear at bottom to title but NOT extending into image & closed tear on right edge also NOT into image, both will be covered by the mat when framed. Paper is lightly age toned but not brittle. Signed in image: "TH. NAST." Overall the piece is Good Condition.

Thomas Nast (1840-1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon". He was the scourge of Democratic Representative "Boss" Tweed and the Tammany Hall Democratic party political machine & of the Democratic Party in general whom he considered pro-South traitors. He was also strongly anti-Irish & anti-Catholic Church, since in the 19th century the Irish strongly supported the Democratic Party & were predominately Catholic. Nast considered the Catholic Church as a threat to American values. According to his biographer, Fiona Deans Halloran, Nast was "intensely opposed to the encroachment of Catholic ideas into public education". Among his notable works were the creation of the modern version of Santa Claus----based on the traditional German figures of Sankt Nikolaus and Weihnachtsmann----and the political symbol of the elephant for the Republican Party. Contrary to popular belief, Nast did not create Uncle Sam----the male personification of the American people----or Columbia----the female personification of American values----or the Democratic donkey, though he did popularize these symbols through his artwork. Nast was associated with the magazine Harper's Weekly from 1859 to 1860 and from 1862 until 1886. It has been argued by eminent historians that as a political cartoonist, Thomas Nast wielded more influence than any other artist of the 19th century. He not only enthralled a vast audience with boldness and wit, but swayed it time and again to his personal position on the strength of his visual imagination. President Lincoln called Nast "our best recruiting sergeant" for one of his most celebrated cartoons "Compromise with the South", which was directed against those in the North who opposed the prosecution of the American Civil War, as well as, for drawing battlefields in border and southern states. President Grant attributed his victory in 1868 to "the sword of Sheridan and the pencil of Thomas Nast." In the 1872 presidential campaign, Nast's ridicule of Horace Greeley's candidacy was especially merciless. After Grant's victory in 1872, Mark Twain wrote the artist a letter saying: "Nast, you more than any other man have won a prodigious victory for Grant----I mean, rather, for Civilization and Progress." As a crusading civil reformer he helped destroy the corrupt "Boss" Tweed Ring that swindled NYC of millions of dollars. His impact on American public life was formidable enough to profoundly affect the outcome of every presidential election during the period 1864 to 1884. ALL ITEMS ARE GUARANTEED TO BE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED, NOT DEFECTIVE, & GENUINE.

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