Boss Tweed And Thomas Nast

Political cartoon by thomas nast depicting boss tweed with a money bag for a head entitled the brains that achieved the tammany victory at the rochester democratic convention credit.
Boss tweed and thomas nast. Harper brothers 1871. Cartoon of boss tweed by thomas nast boss tweed and the tweed ring depicted as a group of vultures by cartoonist thomas nast in harper s weekly september 23 1871. Tweed never served as mayor. Tweed became notorious as boss tweed in new york city.
Excerpt from the 1999 documentary film on new york by ric burns. Nast was a german immigrant who came to the united states with his family when he was six years old. The old new york. Nast thomas 1840 1902 artist created published new york.
Illustration shows boss tweed leaning on a voting stand labeled the ballot and in counting there is strength also on the page are numerous advertisements for products such as fishing supplies pianos and stereopticons. Cartoon of boss tweed by thomas nast boss tweed and the tweed ring depicted as a group of vultures by cartoonist thomas nast in harper s weekly september 23 1871. Just like tweed school wasn t for him and he dropped out at an early age. Boss tweed depicted by thomas nast in a wood engraving published in harper s weekly october 21 1871 a group of vultures waiting for the storm to blow over let us prey the tweed ring depicted by nast in a wood engraving published in harper s weekly september 23 1871.
Tweed was a walking caricature and that fired up the imagination of artist thomas nast a german immigrant who used squiggles and crosshatches to expose the soul of a swindler. Nast s caricature of the fleeing political boss led to tweed s identification and arrest in vigo spain in 1876. Thomas nast thomas nast would rise to fame in the late 1860s when his innovative satirical comics led directly to the arrest of boss tweed. Thomas nast s campaign against boss tweed in the years following the civil war a former street brawler and lower east side political fixer named william m.