Handcolored Gallery

NAST: STATE AID CARTOON. 'The American River Ganges': one of Thomas Nast's vitriolic

NAST: STATE AID CARTOON.
'The American River Ganges': one of Thomas Nast's vitriolic cartoon comments, 1871, on the question of state aid to parochial schools, in which members of the New York City Tweed Ring are shown looking on as Roman Catholic bishops in the guise of crocodiles prepare to attack the public school system

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GERMANY: MUSES, c1535. 'Klagred der Neun Muse oder kunst uber Teutschlandt' or

GERMANY: MUSES, c1535.
'Klagred der Neun Muse oder kunst uber Teutschlandt' or 'Lament of the nine muses over the arts in Germany.' Woodcut by George Pencz, c1535

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1535, Broadside, Early, Exterior, Forest, George, German, Germany, Horse, Horseman, Illustration, Muse, Pencz, Science, Text, Women, Woodcut

ALLEGORY OF THE MOON, 1482. Allegorical representation of Luna, Roman goddess of the moon

ALLEGORY OF THE MOON, 1482.
Allegorical representation of Luna, Roman goddess of the moon. Woodcut from Gaius Julius Hyginus' 'Poeticon Astronomicon,' Venice, Italy, 1482

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1482, Allegory, Ancient Rome, Archer, Arrow, Astronomy, Bow, Cancer, Chariot, Charioteer, Crab, Gaius, Goddess, Greek, Haul, Horn, Huntress, Hyginus, Julius, Luna, Marine, Moon, Myth, Occult, Personification, Poeticon Astronomicon, Pull, Rein, Renaissance, Roman, Selene, Venetian, Women, Woodcut