(CLEVELAND GROVER) NAST THOMAS Ink drawing Signed Th Nast ca

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(CLEVELAND, GROVER.) NAST, THOMAS. Ink drawing, Signed "Th: Nast," cartoon showing Cleveland as a turtle, with holograph caption: "In the Soup To-Day." 9 1/4x7 1/4 inches, artist's board; mat toning, unrelated pencil notes and sketches on verso, adhesive remnants on verso. Np, circa 1884?

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During the 1884 presidential campaign, charges that Cleveland had sired an illegitmate child began to circulate; Cleveland immediately made a statement that he had in fact paid child support in 1874, but that the paternity of the child was unknown. Despite the ensuing scandal, in which political satirists joked that the candidate was "in the soup," he was elected president that November.