"He made some hootch and tried it on the dog"

An old man with a scraggly goatee, holding a partially eaten sandwich and a bottle, looks at his dog in amazement as the animal's back hunches, his eyes cross and his hair stands on end.
Caption label from exhibit "Monstrous Craws...": Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928) is remembered as one of the great comic draughtsmen in the history of American illustration. Best known for affectionate, humorous portraits of rural characters, both human and animal, he published work in such popular periodicals as Harper's Monthly, Life, Collier's, Puck, Scribner's, and Harper's Weekly. He also illustrated more than ninety books by such authors as Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Theodore Roosevelt. Frost achieved widespread critical and popular success with his masterful, inventive illustrations for Joel Chandler Harris's classic series of "Uncle Remus" books, beginning with Uncle Remus and His Friends (1892). Early in Frost's career, author F. Hopkinson Smith wrote of his drawings, "Only a dot and a line, and yet there is a whole volume of anxiety, alarm, misery, and fright expressed in this same dot and line one no larger than the head of a pin, and the other no longer than its point. That is what I call a genius."
Copyright by Life Publishing Company. This drawing must not be reproduced without written permission from Life Publishing Co. Every impression must carry the line "Copr. Life Pub. Co."
Signed, lower right: A.B. Frost.
Title inscribed below image.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1977; (DLC/PP-1977:215.18)
Published in: Life, October 6, 1921.
Exhibit loan 4168-L.
Exhibited: Cartoonists Guild, "The Art in Cartooning," 1975; Library of Congress, "Wit's End," 1985.
Exhibited: "Monstrous Craws and Character Flaws: Masterpieces of Cartoon Caricature," Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., February 25-July 1998.