HOMER DAVENPORT UNCLE SAM POLITICAL CARTOON ORIGINAL ART & "DAVENPORT'S CARTOONS" BOOK.
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Winning Bid:
$275.18
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Bidding Ended:
Thursday, July 11, 2019 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Thursday, July 11, 2019 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
From 1896 until 1904, Homer Davenport (1867-1912) was William Randolph Hearst's favorite political cartoonist. Starting out in small papers in his native Oregon, Davenport worked his way up to become one of the highest paid political cartoonists of the late-19th and early 20th Century. In response to his inflammatory cartooning during the 1896 Presidential Election, an 1897 Anti-Cartoon Bill was aimed at Davenport, introduced in the New York legislature. Though never put into law, such was Davenport's effect on the political climate that his work generated an attempt to abridge the First Amendment rights of newspapers. Hearst extensively used Davenport's cartooning as part of Hearst's 'Yellow Journalism' in an effort to involve the US in the Spanish-American War. Offered here is a 13.25x19-7/8" artboard w/Davenport's pen and ink original art, showing Uncle Same begrudgingly gathering up his drum, his drumsticks laying on the floor under the watchful eyes of Lincoln and Washington to go take care of the worried-looking Spaniard who peers anxiously from the doorway. c. 1898. Davenport has signed at lower left. Artboard has corner tip wear w/lower right having corner tip off. Scattered staining, most notably some moisture staining along top and right margins. Back has some penciled text. VG overall, but art would make for nice framed display. Comes w/12.25x16.5" clothbound hardcover edition of "Davenport's Cartoons," a collection of some of Davenport's best political cartoons. Published by The De Witt Publishing House in 1898. Book shows obvious aging to front's illustrated cloth panel and pages have some chipping. Archival tape repair to title page, which has large splits by binding. VG overall.
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