The Political Niagara – A Drowning Man Catches at a Straw (published "Harper's Weekly," June 27, 1868)
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Thomas Nast|Joseph T. Speer
Artist bio: American (born Germany), Landau 1840–1902 Guayaquil|American, active 1868
Artist role: Artist|Engraver
Artist nationality: American, born Germany|American
Date: originally published 1868
Medium: Relief print and electrotype
Dimensions: Image: 9 1/8 × 8 15/16 in. (23.1 × 22.7 cm)
Sheet: 14 3/8 × 11 13/16 in. (36.5 × 30 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of Thomas Nast Jr., Mabel Nast Crawford and Cyril Nast, 1933
Accession year: 1933