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 ...

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 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 ...