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The Next in Order--Any Thing! Oh, Any Thing!

Creator:
Harper's Weekly, Thomas Nast
Location:
New York, NY
Origin Date:
1872
Materials:
paper
Measurements:
overall: 16 in x 10 1/2 in
Item ID:
71.2009.081.0614
Holding Institution:
Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
Available for Viewing:
No
Category:
Fine Art

Description

This woodcut engraving is a political cartoon printed in Harper's Weekly on Saturday, September 14, 1872. The cartoon portrays a short bald man representing Horace Greeley taking off his hat and bowing, extending his right hand to shake with a shadowy figure of John Wilkes Booth who stands in the bushes. Greeley's face is hidden behind his outreached arm. He is dressed in modest clothes, an oversized coat, with a pamphlet sticking out of the pocket reading "What I Know About Wilkes Booth. By Howard Greeley." On the back hem of his coat hangs a tag labeled "Gratz Brown". Behind Greeley lies Abraham Lincoln's tombstone, on which is written the following: "A. Lincoln. The Manner of His Death Is Known To All". The cartoon is signed, Th: Nast. Below the image is the title, "The Next in Order--Any Thing! Oh, Any Thing!" This cartoon is an attack on continuing support of the Confederacy seven years after Lincoln's assassination. The reverse side of the paper contains four columns of written text. The text presents a subscription discount offer at the beginning, and the rest of the paper is dedicated to political matters mainly involving Horace Greeley. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum