# Study for Cartoon, "Editor's Easy Chair"

- By: Thomas Nast (American, b. Germany, 1840–1902)
- Date: 1870
- Medium: Graphite on paper
- Classification: Figures (representations)
- Dimensions: 28.9 × 21.3 cm (11 3/8 × 8 3/8 in.)
- Culture: USA
- Credit line: Gift of Cooper Union Library
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/106894)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/9b53b1e000346dd30caa5993ba4fac2c.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The editor is seated at his desk, facing left with editions of Harper's Weekly hanging on racks behind him. Seated on the floor, facing right in profile, is the artist himself depicted as a young child. The artist is sharpening his pencil, with a drawing block spread across his knees.