Boss Tweed and the Tammany Tiger

From Mattatuck Museum

Thomas Nast (created by)
Mattatuck Historical Soc (owned by)

1890 (Date manufactured/created)

ink

paper, print

5 1/2 in. H X 11 1/2 in. W Measurement Notes: Dimensions Extent: overall
Framed?: Yes

caricature of Tweed as child's toy, body assuming shape of a ball, leaning against a tiger. between them letter addressed to MR Sholder, New York, and postage skull with crossed bones and text "black / mail". Signed at right "Th. Nast / 1890"

Gift of Mildred Thaler Cohen, 1999; Seymour R. Thaler and Mildred Thaler Cohen Collection

Accession/ID Number 99.25.36