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Hereditary instinct – Vintage Print

Hereditary instinct, 1888 — antique engraving
Hereditary instinct, 1888. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A satirical engraving of James G. Blaine, the Republican politician, ran in the January 16, 1888, issue of *The Daily Graphic*, an illustrated New York daily. Blaine had been Secretary of State and was the Republican nominee who lost the 1884 presidential election to Grover Cleveland, so by early 1888 he remained a prominent figure in his party. The title, *Hereditary Instinct*, suggests a joke about inherited habits in political behavior, a common device of the period's cartoonists. The catalog data come from an old caption card, so the specific point the drawing makes is best confirmed in the published issue itself.

Created / published1888
Medium1 print : engraving.
SubjectsIllus. in: The Daily Graphic, 1888 Jan. 16, v. 45, no. 4613. Reference copy may be available in Biog. Index - Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893--Cartoons. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Politicans...--1888--Cartoons; BI; Caricatures..., Am.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,205 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145900

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