Cartoons Of Boss Tweed
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Cartoons of boss tweed. Nast s caricature of the fleeing political boss led to tweed s identification and arrest. One of thomas nast s searing renderings of the most famous of all corrupt politicians. He was a critic of democratic representative boss tweed and the tammany hall democratic party political machine. The tammany ring run by a man named william boss tweed bribed officials rigged elections and stole money from city coffers.
September 27 1840 december 7 1902 was a german born american caricaturist and editorial cartoonist often considered to be the father of the american cartoon. Fittingly the spaniards identified tweed using one of thomas nast s old harper s magazine cartoons which depicted the fugitive in a striped prison uniform. Marcy the former governor of new york. He was finally exposed by the new york times by the satiric cartoons of thomas nast and by the efforts of reform lawyer samuel j.
Mauls the principles of the republic while tweed as caesar watches the arena unmoved. William boss tweed vintage and historic cartoons and caricatures from the cartoonstock directory the world s largest on line collection of cartoons. 44 in popular culture edit. The first american master of the political cartoon an illustrator named thomas nast used his work to shed light on the corruption that ran rampant in tammany hall in new york city.
Tweed in new york city in the 1870s. How a series of political cartoons by artist thomas nast helped send william boss tweed to prison. Cartoons for analysis boss tweed as moneybag doc a. Boss tweed american politician who with his tweed ring cronies systematically plundered new york city of sums estimated at between 30 million and 200 million.
His cartoons were probably one of the chief factors in the machine s downfall. Thomas nast s cartoon depicting william magear tweed with a money bag for a head. At first it seemed that nast didn t really focus on tweed as cartoons he drew in 1870 seemed to indicate that nast believed peter sweeny one of tweed s closest associates was the real leader. Many of nast s most effective cartoons were virulent attacks on tammany hall led by boss tweed.