Illustrated Political Chart: A Cartoon of American Politics and the Tapeworm Frame Style:Verdigris Frame the earthwork redoubt drawn with

the earthwork redoubt drawn with the cartographer's patience for a fight that lasted barely a winter afternoon

It is an orrery flattened onto paper — Victorian astronomy at its most devotional

with the composed gravity of a man who knew posterity was already taking notes

when the Republic

Abraham Lincoln of Illinois

Illustrated Political Chart: A Cartoon of American Politics and the Tapeworm Frame Style:Verdigris Frame the earthwork redoubt drawn withIllustrated Political Chart: A Cartoon of American Politics and the Tapeworm renders the body politic as host to a parasite, the Gilded Age's bossism and graft drawn out as a literal worm coiling through the republic's gut satire with the diagnostic confidence of a medical engraving. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,