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Biblical Analogies |
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“Satan Don’t Get Thee Behind Me!” |
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Cartoonist: Thomas Nast |
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Source: Harper's Weekly |
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Date:
August 17, 1872, pp. 640-641
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Click to see a large version of this cartoon |
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Complete HarpWeek Explanation:
The week after "Babes of the Wood," the
cartoonist seems to have been utterly incapable of resisting temptation himself.
In this cartoon, the pious Greeley is shown in an brutal burlesque of Jesus'
temptation on the mountain. The New York Tribune editor is begging abjectly for
the support of the Democratic Devil to help him enter the governmental
"Kingdom of Washington" spread out behind him. Nast's huge,
over-wrought, two-page spread is itself modeled after an comparatively ethereal
image of the same subject by Gustave Dore from his 1866 Holy Bible (Vol. II,
p.171). |
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Warning
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