Besides Nast’s mastery
of caricature, knowledge of classic literature and
mythology, inventive mind, and impish sense of humor, the
incorporation of catchphrases and symbols into his cartoons
was one of his most effective, and sometimes devastating,
techniques. That skill is nowhere on better display
than in his images of Horace Greeley. This website
features Nast’s Greeley cartoons organized by four
catchphrases—“What I Know About…”; “Clasp Hands over the
Bloody Chasm”; “Anything to…”; and “Go West, Young Man, Go
West”—along with two symbols—the Gratz Brown nametag and the
organ that was not an organ. Nast’s relentless use of
these epithets and emblems merged into a negative public
image that helped bury the candidacy of Horace Greeley.
Nast
reduced Greeley's vice-presidential running mate, Governor Gratz
Brown of Missouri, to insignificance by depicting him as a
nametag on Greeley's coattail.
May 25, 1872, p. 408
June 1, 1872, p. 428
June 8, 1872, p. 448
July 6, 1872, p. 528
July 6, 1872, p. 536
July 20, 1872, p. 573
August 3, 1872, p. 596
August 3, 1872, p. 605
August 3, 1872, p. 608
August 10, 1872, p. 624
August 17, 1872, p. 637
August 17, 1872, pp. 640-641
August 17, 1872, p. 648
August 24, 1872, p. 652
August 31, 1872, p. 665
August 31, 1872, p. 668
September 7, 1872, p. 692
September 14, 1872, p. 713
September 14, 1872, p. 716
September 14, 1872, p. 728
September 21, 1872, p. 729
September 21, 1872, p. 732
September 28, 1872, p. 745
September 28, 1872, pp. 752-753
September 28, 1872, p. 760
October 5, 1872, p. 764
October 12, 1872, p. 785
October 12, 1872, p. 792
October 19, 1872, p. 804
October 19, 1872, p. 813
October 19, 1872, p. 816
October 26, 1872, pp. 832-833
October 26, 1872, p. 840
November 2, 1872, p. 841
November 2, 1872, p. 845
November 2, 1872, p. 848
November 2, 1872, p. 856
November 9, 1872, p. 865
November 9, 1872, pp. 872-873
November 9, 1872, p. 877
November 23, 1872, p. 905 |