Группа стервятников в ожидании шторма "Blow Over" - "Let Us Prey" / Th Nast.

Illustration shows William "Boss" Tweed and members of his ring, Peter B. Sweeny, Richard B. Connolly, and A. Oakey Hall, weathering a violent storm on a ledge with the picked-over remains of New York City.
Caption label from exhibit "Monstrous Craws...": Thomas Nast (1840-1902) was the dominant political cartoonist in America during the second half of the nineteenth century. His Civil War and Reconstruction drawings for Harper's Weekly earned him a national reputation, and the series of cartoons he drew between 1869 and 1872 exposing the corrupt "Tweed Ring" of New York City's Tammany Hall contributed to the group's ultimate indictment and became a landmark in the history of journalistic crusades against corruption in government. The Library of Congress collections include several original woodblocks engraved by Nast for the Tweed series including this one, considered among his most masterful works.

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 15, no. 769 (1871 September 23), p. 889.
Exhibited: "Monstrous Craws and Character Flaws: Masterpieces of Cartoon Caricature," Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., February 25-July 1998.