"Quixotic Tilting"

This "Puck" cartoon satirizes Senator Roscoe Conkling as author Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote, tilting at Pres. Garfield - a giant windmill from Cervantes's novel. Vice president Arthur and Senator Platt are dressed as Don Quixote's sidekick Sancho Panza and his donkey. "Senatorial courtesy" allowed senators (as opposed to the president) to choose federal officials in their own states.

Date:
May 18, 1881
Original Format:
Cartoon
Item#:
20.318
Height:
1127px
Width:
835px
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