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Feb 1, 2022 · Currier & Ives sold satirical cartoons to audiences across the political spectrum, and Maurer also brandished Lincoln’s “rail splitter” image against him.
These cartoons are vivid, sharp, and offensive to our eyes. But they invite us to put aside twenty-first-century assumptions and look at events through the eyes of people living in the era. Artists and citizens who created these images lived in a century in which racism was deeply ingrained in American life. Even those ardent abolitionists who ...
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Abraham Lincoln was targeted and supported in countless political cartoons throughout his career and continued to be politicized after his death in later illustrations. This exhibit will look at the cartoons attacking and supporting Lincoln and his policies as well as look at how he has been politicized after his death.
Dec 26, 2023 · James Gillray’s The Plumb-Pudding in Danger. Hailed by British cartoonist and writer Martin Rowson as “the greatest political cartoon ever”, James Gillray’s The Plumb-pudding in Danger is typical of the Georgian-era caricaturist’s biting satire. Drawn in 1805, the cartoon depicts French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and British prime ...
- Helen Armitage
Jan 1, 2009 · Of course, Lincoln was also the target of comic pictorial satire. Unfortunately the scholarship on Lincoln political caricature, at least in the periodical genre, did not keep pace with the output of several significant artists, such as Thomas Nast, William Newman, H.L. Stephens, and Frank Bellew.
- Gary L. Bunker
- 2009
Dec 15, 2004 · Cartoonists achieved unprecedented visibility and influence. President Lincoln called Nast his “best recruiting sergeant,” while “Boss” Tweed soon railed from jail against “them damn pictures.” Publishers quickly recognized the potential influence and attraction of political cartoons.
Thomas Nast is known as America’s best-ever political cartoonist. Here are (11) Lincoln cartoons to browse out of 1000 total cartoons in the book.
