Description: ORIGINAL THOMAS NAST (1840-1902) CARTOON WOODCUT - POLITICAL SATIRE - FROM HARPER'S WEEKLY MAY 11, 1872Size 16 x 11 inches. Condition: light age toning, clean and unmarked, unrelated print on backside. Title: "A 'LIBERAL' SURRENDER, 'ANYTHING CAN BEAT GRANT" "This prescient cartoon appeared on newsstands the opening day (May 1) of the Liberal Republican Convention and depicts the Democratic takeover of the Liberal Republican cause. Viewed from behind the battlements outside of the nation's capital, Horace Greeley and Carl Schurz, diametric opposites, stand together upon the barricade. The Tribune editor plays the "charge" on his (inverted) trumpet and the senator waves the white flag of "Truce/We Surrender/Anything To Beat Grant" to summon in from the woods (right) the Ku Klux Klan, Copperheads, Slavery, the Confederate States of America, and the Tammany Ring, all representing the Democratic party. Later, in early July, the Democratic National Convention accepted the Liberal Republican nominees and platform as its own."Closer to the line (clockwise), Nathan Bedford Forrest, former Confederate cavalry leader and Klan founder, Horatio Seymour and Frank Blair, the 1868 Democratic presidential and vice-presidential nominees, and Jefferson Davis, former Confederate president, attempt to scale the barrier. Inside the battlements, former president Andrew Johnson creeps out from under the tent (extreme right). The tent at lower left has figures of (l-r) Trumbull, Tipton, and Schurz caricatured on its panels."The characterization of the Liberal Republicans as traitors is further emphasized in the action of the trio of Liberal Republican senators(l-r), Thomas Tipton, Reuben Fenton, and Lyman Trumbull, who train their "Cincinnati Convention" cannon on the forces of President Ulysses S. Grant (calmly smoking a cigar under the American flag, far left). Grant's cannon of the regular Republican "Philadelphia Convention" (held June 5-6) is ready to fire and his troops are prepared to charge."Questions welcome. Extra images can be added by request. International shipping available. All orders are carefully packaged for safe delivery. Experienced full time professional bookseller since 1994; print, map and poster seller since 2000. Other Harper's woodcuts listed; combined shipping available.
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Width (Inches): 11 Inches
Production Technique: Woodblock Printing
Subject: Politics & Satire
Height (Inches): 16 Inches
Print Surface: Paper
Date of Creation: 1800-1899
Artist: Thomas Nast
Original/Licensed Reprint: Open Edition Print
Style: Cartoon
Type: Print
