Unfortunately for the Democratic Party, Nast was also a committed Republican. His images were ... dead lion”, Nast’s cartoon carries a different message. In it the donkey—ears back, hind ...

But it was Nast’s revival of the Democratic donkey in his Jan. 18, 1870 cartoon, shown above ... “But them damn pictures!” Tweed once offered an enormous bribe to Nast “so he ...

the Democratic donkey, and Uncle Sam. Publishing regularly in Harper's Weekly, the celebrated Nast drew thousands of cartoons during the second half of the nineteenth century. Like many ...

The donkey became more popular in the 1870s when Thomas Nast made it a symbol of the Democratic Party in his Harper's Weekly illustrations. Nast's incisive, mocking cartoons solidified the donkey ...

The cartoon depicts a donkey dressed in lion's clothing ... fox cringing at the edge of the pit. In other images, Nast did portray Democrats as a donkey, picking up a symbol that had largely ...