Thomas Nast Cartoons Of Boss Tweed

Tweed was a walking caricature and that fired up the imagination of artist thomas nast a german immigrant who used squiggles and crosshatches to expose the soul of a swindler.

Thomas nast cartoons of boss tweed. Thomas nast brings down boss tweed and tammany hall the power of the political cartoon. Thomas nast american cartoonist best known for his attack on the political machine of william m. Tweed in new york city in the 1870s. The old new york.

Political cartoon by thomas nast depicting boss tweed with a money bag for a head entitled the brains that achieved the tammany victory at the rochester democratic convention credit. Boss tweed was an american politician who with his tweed ring cronies systematically plundered new york city of sums estimated at between 30 million and 200 million. Thomas nast is considered the father of modern political cartoons and his satirical drawings are often credited with bringing down boss tweed the notoriously corrupt leader of the new york city political machine in the 1870s. William tweed was born on the lower eastside of manhattan in 1823 to a scottish irish family.

He came from humble enough. 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. Even today when most political cartoons from a century ago seem bland and quaint nast s still have plenty of sting to them. Thomas nast s cartoon appeared in 1871 tweed s imperium was dissolving and the cartoonists had done a great deal to propel the boss toward destruction.

He was a critic of democratic representative boss tweed and the tammany hall democratic party political machine. How a cartoonist took down the most corrupt and powerful politicians in new york. The cartoonist thomas nast became a legend by drawing caricatures in harper s weekly that helped to bring down corrupt politician boss tweed.