    
Title: A political cartoon Description: A political cartoon entitled "A group of vultures waiting for the storm to 'blow over'" was the response of illustrator Thomas Nast to Boss William Marcy Tweed (William Marcy Tweed, Jr.; 1823-1878), the corrupt leader of Tammany, second from left, after Tweed first threatened Nast to stop publishing his indicting caricatures of him and his political cronies and then offered Nast a $500,000 bribe to cease his illustrative attacks; said Tweed at the time these scathing illustrations were published: "I don't so much what the papers write about me - my constituents can't read; but, damn it, they can see pictures!" Location: New York, New York, 1871 Keywords: illustrators, political caricatures, political cartoons, political corruption Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1950 x 2950 (5.75 MPixels) (2:3) Print Size: 16.5 x 25.0 cm; 6.5 x 9.8 inches File Size: 16.48 MB (17,281,326 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000095789 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
