?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
THOMAS NAST "National Animals." Political cartoon, c. 1890. 216x241 mm; 8 1/2x9 1/2 inches. Pen and ink on board. Signed "Th: Nast" in lower left image.
Showing the American eagle and the British lion, each in trousers and frock coats, the eagle rubbing his throat and the lion looking sadly at his tail, with this caption on the wall in the background: "Washington Circus. Proclamation of the head Clown, 'The British Lion's tail shall be wrenched, or the American eagle's neck wrung' . . ."
Source: Sotheby's auction catalog, New York, October 31, 1984.
