Thomas Nast

• 1840-1902 from Germany to New York
  
• engraver for Harpers Weekly 1857-1886
  
• technique: caricature, emblem, allegory
  
• themes: urban, Republican, ethnocultural
  
• pro-freedman (emancipation emblem)
  
• anti-Johnson (Roman emperor)
  
• pro-Grant (1868 Chicago - loyal soldier)
  
• anti-Democrat (1868 evil alliance of 3 figures)
  
• anti-Tammany Hall in NY (Peter Sweeney)
  
• anti-Irish (church-state plot like Europe)
  
• anti-Tweed (thumb, pear, tiger symbols)
  
• anti-Liberal Republican (Sumner & conspirators)
  
• anti-Carl Schurz (as carpetbag traitor)
  
• anti-Greeley (clasping hands with enemies)
  
• pro-Chinese (California vs Burlingame Treaty)
  
• pro-Indian (victims of corrupt Congress)
  
• pro- women's rights (Ohio movement)
  
• anti-socialist, unions (1870 Paris commune)
  
• anti-soft money (rag baby symbol)
  

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