[Mr. Morse of Massachusetts] - Public domain portrait drawing

Three-quarter length caricature of Congressman Elijah A. Morse.
Inscribed on verso: An aerogonous, cryptogamous plant on Plymouth Rock.
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Signed, lower right: Th: Nast.
Title from The Press (New York).
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.477)
One of several drawings that accompanied an article in The Press about Nast and his art. The article follows Nast on a visit to Washington where he sketched various political figures. Morse was a four-term Republican Congressman from Massachusetts whom Nast encountered while being interviewed by The Press. The newspaper quotes Nast as saying that, "Those [Morse's] whiskers are enough to make fame for the possessor."
Published in: The Press (New York), May 25, 1890.
Exhibited: Library of Congress, "Drawings of Nature and Circumstance," 1979.