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Struck--At Sea. If it had not been for that haze (Hayes), they could have steered clear of the iceberg. Engraving
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Engraving of political cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast

Dimensions of engraving and caption: 36 cm x 24 cm; whole page: 40.7 cm x 28.4

From Harper's Weekly, 21 October 1876, page 856.


In 1876, when Charles Francis Adams, a reform Republican, ran for governor of Massachusetts as a Democrat, Thomas Nast parodied the austere Adams as a frozen block of ice upon which "Massachusetts Democracy" wrecked.

See also, in the same issue of Harper's, Nast's depiction of Charles Francis Adams as the hypocritical "Champion of the Fenians," attired as a stereotypical Irish-American politician.