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Image Title: A Group Of Vultures Waiting For The Storm To Blow Over - Let US Prey, 1871

Creator: Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, artist

Date: 1871 September 23.

Summary: Illustration shows William "Boss" Tweed and members of his ring, Peter B. Sweeny, Richard B. Connolly, and A. Oakey Hall, weathering a violent storm on a ledge with the picked-over remains of New York City.

Notes: Caption label from exhibit "Monstrous Craws...": Thomas Nast (1840-1902) was the dominant political cartoonist in America during the second half of the nineteenth century. His Civil War and Reconstruction drawings for Harper's Weekly earned him a national reputation, and the series of cartoons he drew between 1869 and 1872 exposing the corrupt "Tweed Ring" of New York City's Tammany Hall contributed to the group's ultimate indictment and became a landmark in the history of journalistic crusades against corruption in government. The collections include several original woodblocks engraved by Nast for the Tweed series including this one, considered among his most masterful works.

Subjects: Connolly, Richard B.--(Richard Barrett),--1810-1880
Corruption--New York (State)--New York--1870-1880
Hall, A. Oakey--(Abraham Oakey),--1826-1898
Sweeny, Peter B.--(Peter Barr),--1825-1911
Tweed, William Marcy,--1823-1878
Vultures--1870-1880

Places: New York State--New York

Original Media: Engraving

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