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Great Expectations,” published May 8 (in the issue dated May 18), was Nast’s
first cartoon since the Liberal Republican National Convention concluded on May
2. He had assumed that diplomat Charles Francis Adams would be nominated for
president, and had nearly completed this drawing when he learned of the surprise
selection of Horace Greeley. Nast altered the picture, probably on the
woodblock after it had been engraved, by changing the tiny head on the mouse
from Adams’s face to Greeley’s and by inscribing vice-presidential nominee Gratz
Brown’s name on the mouse’s tail. (This is why Greeley appears twice, watching
his own figure as a mouse). |
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