A Group of Vultures Waiting for the Storm to "Blow Over"--"Let Us Prey." 
<p>by Thomas Nast
</p><p>Wood engraving published in Harper's Weekly newspaper, September 23, 1871
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Boss Tweed and the Tammany Ring shown as vultures perched on a cliff trying to wait out the storm of accusations.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Thomas_Nast" class="extiw" title="w:en:Thomas Nast"><span title="American cartoonist (1840–1902)">Thomas Nast</span></a>
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23 September 1871<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1871-09-23T00:00:00Z/11</div>
Cartoon in Harper's Weekly per above description; via image donated by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.greatcaricatures.com">GreatCaricatures.com</a>