Object Details
- Description
- Editorial cartoonist Thomas Nast continued the tradition of using animals as symbols in party politics and sharpened it as an art form. In this satirical cartoon that appeared on August 31, 1872 in Harper’s Weekly, Nast depicts New York City’s corrupt Tammany Society as a fierce tiger, being whitewashed by Democratic presidential candidate Horace Greeley.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- associated institution
- Tammany Hall
- described
- Greeley, Horace
- artist
- Nast, Thomas
- date made
- 1872
- Credit Line
- Ralph E. Becker Collection of Political Americana
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 15 1/4 in x 10 1/2 in; 38.735 cm x 26.67 cm
- Object Name
- Periodical Sheet
- Cartoon
