HAPPY HOOLIGAN CREATOR FREDERICK OPPER ANTI-IRISH IMMIGRANT CARTOON ORIGINAL ART.
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Winning Bid:
$356.95
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Friday, March 17, 2017 9:00:00 AM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Friday, March 17, 2017 9:00:00 AM)
Item Description
7-1/8x10.5" thin artboard has pen and ink original art by noted cartoonist Frederick Opper (1857-1937), noted for comic strips "Happy Hooligan, Alphonse And Gaston, Her Name Was Maud" and others. Opper also drew political cartoons for William Randolph Hearst's "New York Journal." This single-panel cartoon dates to c. 1885, during the height of anti-Irish immigrant sentiment in America and features man w/bucket and paint brush standing outside of wooden shack decorated w/shamrocks and Irish harp, w/freshly painted "Down Wid Toyrunts! No More Irish Paupers Wanted In The U.S." text. Irish woman looks out of window as goat w/painted shamrock look on. Nightshirt w/harp image hangs off post over door like a flag. Opper has signed at lower right. Lower left corner has .5x1" corner tip off (not affecting art) w/2" corner crease. Artboard is evenly aged w/some corner foxing and scattered dust soiling. Fine overall, but image remains VF.
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