The Light (Weight) of the World...
Date1892
Artist
Thomas Nast
(American cartoonist, illustrator, 1840–1902)
Illustration CitationPlace of publication not identified
MediumInk on paper pasted on board
Dimensionssheet: 12 1/8 × 9 7/16 in. (30.8 × 24 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987
Object number1987-20
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis cartoon depicts the British poet Sir Edwin Arnold, author of the narrative poem The Light of Asia, an interpretation of Buddhist religious texts. Arnold antagonized Prime Minister William Gladstone (the G.O.M., or grand old man sketched at the upper right) with his opposing political views. Arnold's second narrative poem The Light of the World was published in 1891 but did not achieve the success of his first.
Thomas Starling Sullivant
1910
Thomas Starling Sullivant
not dated
