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A sop to Cerberus - Gillam - Chester A. Arthur
1882-05-17
- Classification
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. https://www.loc.gov/item/2012647203/
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Political cartoon showing Chester A. Arthur offering a "Bill Excluding Chinese for 10 Years", in the shape of a Chinese man's face, to a three-headed Cerberus labeled "Western Vote" with the heads labeled "Demagogue, Hoodlum, [and] Irish". At Arthur's feet is a basket labeled "Sops for Everybody", and he holds a rope behind his back labeled "2nd Term Aspirations". The Cerberus is guarding the narrow path through the forest to the White House labeled "1884", which shines in the distance. Originally published in the humor magazine Puck in 1882, after President Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act.
