Thomas NastAmerican, 1840–1902Hard Fish to Catch
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Where is “Hard Fish to Catch” now? Collection: National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian), Washington, D.C. Unknown.
Washington, D.C., United States
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
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- Accession number
- NPG.88.228
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- National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)
- Image: National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian) — National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (CC0)
In the life of Thomas Nast
The whole life1872
Moves to Morristown, New Jersey
He and his wife move to Morristown, New Jersey, where they raise a family that eventually numbers five children.
1872
Merciless cartoons of Horace Greeley
In the 1872 presidential campaign his ridicule of Horace Greeley’s candidacy is especially merciless. After Grant’s victory Mark Twain writes to Nast that he, more than any other man, has won a prodigious victory, “for Civilization and Progress.”
1873
Lecture tour across the United States
Tours the United States as a lecturer and a sketch artist; his activity on the lecture circuit makes him wealthy.
1873–1902 · Residence
Thomas Nast Home
December 1875
Fugitive Tweed identified from a Nast cartoon
When Tweed tries to escape justice by fleeing to Cuba and from there to Spain, officials in Vigo identify the fugitive using one of Nast’s cartoons.
1876
Campaign for Rutherford B. Hayes
Opposing inflation of the currency (notably with his famous rag-baby cartoons), Nast plays an important part in securing Rutherford B. Hayes’s ultimate victory in 1876; Hayes later calls him the most powerful single-handed aid he had. Nast soon becomes disillusioned with the president, opposing his lenient policy towards the South in removing federal troops.
