Thomas Nast CHRISTMAS BOX PRESENT SOUTH 1879 Original Print Art Matted

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Thomas Nast CHRISTMAS BOX PRESENT SOUTH 1879 Original Print Art Matted:
$30.00

Antique, bevel-mattedengraving from an oldissue of HARPER\'S WEEKLY, an antique, illustratednewspaper, published in 1879.

TEXT: A Christmas BOX -- See pictures for additional text

ARTIST:THOMAS NAST, SIGNED IN PLATE

CONDITION: VERY GOOD — Clean andclear; nofoxingortears,and GOOD MARGINS.A REALLY NICE IMAGE. NICE DARK LINES AND DEFINITION.[NOTE: SOFT, BARELY NOTICABLE FOLDS ACROSS IMAGE AND IMPRESSION FROM REVERSE TEXT IN WHITE SPACE.SEE CLOSE-UPS.]

This print isover 130 years old and guaranteed to be original. It’s an authentic oldprint from the aforementioned publication, and NOT A REPRODUCTION.

The print is 10\" x 15\". Matted the print measures 16\" x 20\". This is a standard size mat that will fit into a standard size frame—no costly custom frames required.

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About Thomas Nast -- From Wikipedia

Thomas Nast (September 27, 1840 – December 7, 1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist who is considered to be the \"Father of the American Cartoon\". Among his notable works were the creation of the modern version of Santa Claus, the male personification of the United States government, Uncle Sam, as well as the political symbols of both major United States political parties: the Republican elephant and the Democratic donkey.

He was born in the barracks of Landau, Germany (in the Rhine Palatinate), the son of a trombonist in the 9th regiment Bavarian band. The elder Nast\'s socialist political convictions put him at odds with the German government, and in 1846 he left Landau, enlisting first on a French man-of-war and subsequently on an American ship. He sent his wife and children to New York City, and at the end of his enlistment in 1849 he joined them there. Thomas Nast\'s passion for drawing was apparent from an early age, and he was enrolled for about a year of study with Alfred Fredericks and Theodore Kaufmann and at the school of the National Academy of Design. Nast attended school in New York City from the age of six to fifteen when he was forced to drop out due to financial problems. Thomas had problems adjusting to life in America and never took well to school. He spent his entire school career on the verge of flunking out and consequently never learned to read or write. After school he started working in 1855 as a draftsman for Frank Leslie\'s Illustrated Newspaper; three years afterward, for Harper\'s Weekly.

One of his first serious works in caricature was the cartoon \"Peace\" (1862), directed against those in the North who opposed the prosecution of the American Civil War. This and his other cartoons during the Civil War and Reconstruction days were published in Harper\'s Weekly. He was known for drawing battlefields in border and southern states. These attracted great attention, and Nast was called by President Abraham Lincoln \"our best recruiting sergeant\". Later, Nast strongly opposed President Andrew Johnson and his Reconstruction policy.

Nast\'s drawings were instrumental in the downfall of Boss Tweed, the powerful Tammany Hall leader. As commissioner of public works for New York City, Tweed led a ring that by 1870 had gained total control of the city\'s government, and controlled \"a working majority in the State Legislature\". Tweed and his associates—Peter Barr Sweeny (park commissioner), Richard B. Connolly (controller of public expenditures), and Mayor A. Oakey Hall—defrauded the city of many millions of dollars by grossly inflating expenses paid to contractors connected to the Ring. Nast, whose cartoons attacking Tammany corruption had appeared occasionally since 1867, intensified his focus on the four principal players in 1870 and especially in 1871. Tweed was arrested in 1873 and convicted of fraud.

Nast, a German Protestant, saw the Roman Catholic Church as a threat to American values, and often portrayed the Irish Catholics and Catholic Church leaders in very hostile terms. In 1871, one of his works, titled \"The American River Ganges,\" infamously portrayed Catholic bishops as crocodiles waiting to attack American school children. Nast\'s anti-Irish sentiment is clearly apparent in his characteristic depiction of the Irish as violent drunks.

In general, his political cartoons supported American Indians and Chinese Americans. He advocated abolition of slavery, opposed segregation, and deplored the violence of the Ku Klux Klan. One of his more famous cartoons, called \"Worse than Slavery\", showed a despondent black family having their house destroyed by arson, as two members of the Ku Klux Klan and White League shake hands in their mutually destructive work against black Americans.

His signature \"Tammany Tiger\" has been emulated by many cartoonists over the years, and he introduced into American cartoons the practice of modernizing scenes from Shakespeare for a political purpose.

Nast shared political views with his friend Mark Twain and was for many years a staunch Republican. Nast opposed inflation of the currency, notably with his famous rag-baby cartoons, and he played an important part in securing Rutherford B. Hayes’ presidential election in 1876. Hayes later remarked that Nast was \"the most powerful, single-handed aid [he] had\", but Nast quickly became disillusioned with President Hayes, whose policy of Southern pacification he opposed.

In 1884, his advocacy of civil service reform and his distrust of James G. Blaine, the Republican presidential candidate, forced him to become a Mugwump, whose support of Grover Cleveland helped him to win election as the first Democratic president since 1856. In the words of the artist\'s grandson, Thomas Nast St Hill, \"it was generally conceded that Nast\'s support won Cleveland the small margin by which he was elected. In this his last national political campaign, Nast had, in fact, \'made a president.\'\"

Nevertheless, Nast\'s tenure at Harper\'s Weekly ended with his Christmas illustration of December 1886. In the words of journalist Henry Watterson, \"in quitting Harper\'s Weekly, Nast lost his forum: in losing him, Harper\'s Weekly lost its political importance.\"

In 1902 Theodore Roosevelt appointed him as the United States\' Consul General to Guayaquil, Ecuador in South America. During a deadly yellow fever outbreak, Nast stayed to the end helping numerous diplomatic missions and businesses escape the contagion. At age 62, in 1902, he died of yellow fever contracted there. His body was returned to the United States where he was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.

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