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Volume. 22. Issue. 6. To his contemporaries Thomas Nast was unquestionably America’s greatest and most effective political cartoonist, attacking corruption with a brilliant and often vitriolic pen, harrying the bosses, creating the political symbols that still remain the emblems of our two major political parties.
Dec 19, 2018 · Thomas Nast It was into this world that the talented artist Thomas Nast arrived in the 1850s. Doing his first sketches as a teenager, he became a staff illustrator for Harper’s Weekly , one of ...
Thomas Nast Caricature Biography. print this window || close this window. Nast was born 30 September, 1840, in Landau, Bavaria. In 1846 his family immigrated to the United States, settling in New York City. Despite the wish of Nast's parents that he learn a practical trade, he was obsessed with drawing. His determination was rewarded when he ...
Thomas Nast was a celebrity. In 1873, following his successful campaign against New York City’s Tweed Ring, he was billed as “The Prince of Caricaturists” for a lecture tour that lasted seven months. Nast used his Harper’s Weekly cartoons to crusade against New York City’s political boss William Magear Tweed, and he devised the ...
Thomas Nast (American (born Germany), Landau 1840–1902 Guayaquil) September 8, 1888 Amphitheater Johnsonianum – Massacre of the Innocents at New Orleans (from "Harper's Weekly," vol. 11, pp. 200-201)
The Political Cartoons of Thomas Nast. With a barbed wit and regular appearances in Harper's Weekly newspaper, Thomas Nast fathered the modern political cartoon. Earlier cartoons had relied on conversation or dialogue to make their point, but Nast emphasized the picture itself, using caricature and symbolism to convey his message. Conkling and ...
Widely considered to be one of the most important American satirists of the nineteenth century, Thomas Nast was a leading cartoonist in the mid to late nineteenth century. An outspoken defender of principled politicians, Nast targeted leaders whom he deemed unethical through his biting illustrations.
