Harper's Weekly#776

Harper's Weekly #776

Nov 1871 · HarperCollins · 0.10 USD

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In this striking 1871 installment of Harper's Weekly, Thomas Nast delivers a vivid political allegory where the Tammany Tiger Americus runs rampant through a symbolic Roman arena, threatening the foundations of the republic. With his unmistakable pen, Nast portrays the collapse of Lady Columbia, Lady Justice, and Mercury—representing commerce—amidst the destruction of the ballot box, law, and national ideals.

writer, artist, inker Thomas Nast

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writer, artist, inker Thomas Nast

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The Tammany Tiger Americus is loose in a Tammany Spoils Roman arena, killing Lady Columbia, Lady Justice, the god Mercury representing commerce, destroying a glass ballot box, the law, power, and the republic itself.

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