Drawing
- Title:
- Spoils of Chase
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 1973.051.08
- Creator:
- Coffin, John E. (1860-1905)
Artist - Date:
- circa 1896
- Description:
- Drawing, cartoon of Spoils of the Chase, by John E. Coffin (1860-1905), c. 1896. Pen and ink on paper on paperboard. Showing caricatures of six men: one very tall man is pulling a small man labelled "ROLLINS" out of a bag labeled "LYFORD / MASSACHUSETTS", while the others, holding a banner that reads "MEMBERS/ of the / REPUBLICAN / STATE / COMMITTEE" look on. Signed right center: "JEC". Ink inscription upper left on matboard: "SPOILS OF THE CHASE."; and lower left to center: "[Th]ey gave Jim Lyford the Naval Office at Boston and This is the Result." Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-14.6 W-15.95 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- People:
- Coffin, J. Ed., Coffin, John E., Lyford, James Otis (1853- ), Rollins, Frank West (1860-1915)
- Subjects:
- Lyford, James Otis, Political cartoons
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