Our political drama, conventions, campaigns, candidates (1904)
Bishop, Joseph Bucklin, 1847-1928 · New York, Scott-Thaw co. · leaf 119
THE DEMOCBAT.IC PUTrORW, historical value, some of them the best in existence.Our early American political caricaturists followedDoyles example as faithfully as their powers as 116 OUR POLITICAL DRAMA draftsmen would permit. That they did not suc-ceed very well in the beginning was not… … knowledge of our politics and public men. It wasonly in very rare instances, therefore, that a litho-graph caricature of an earlier date than 1840 can befound which is even tolerable, either in conceptionor execution. There was a slight improvementafter that period, and by 1850 a sufficient…
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