High-quality canvas wall art with a matte finish. Each canvas includes back hanging hardware for convenient display. The frame is made from radiata pine sourced from renewable forests.
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Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell, 5 Mar 1862 - William Jennings Bryan and Willaim Randolph Hearst - 1908 - Canvas Wall Art
This painted cartoon design shows a man in a dark suit and bowler-style hat labelled “BRYAN” leaping sideways from a rifle lying across the lower right of the sheet. His hat floats above his head, his hand is raised to his mouth and his face is drawn in an expression of alarm. Beside him, at lower left, a porcupine with a human face and a label reading “Hearst” crouches among its quills. A flat, solid red disc fills the upper left, and the figures are set on a pale cream ground within a ruled border. Pencilled notes along the top and bottom edges give instructions for the colour and printing, including the request for a solid flat red.
The composition uses the animal fable form to make a political point, casting the two public men as a startled hunter and a prickly creature that has delivered a sting. Such caricatures were a staple of American magazine satire in the first decade of the twentieth century, when the presidential campaign of 1908 and the sharp rivalry between newspaper publishers and political figures gave cartoonists rich material.