For connoisseurs of elephant art, the elephant’s self-portraits are akin to a circus trick, because the ability to represent mimetically is a set of learned conventions – nothing more, and ...

On Nov. 7, 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly.

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The Republican elephant (“the sluggish animal”) is lying on and blocking the road to an election victory. By 1880, other cartoonists had picked up the symbols and spread them across the country.

By the end of the 19th century both the Republican elephant and the Democrat donkey were firmly associated with the parties thanks to their use in cartoons in large circulation newspapers.

He it was who created the Elephant as symbolic of the Republican Party, and the longeared Donkey that came finally to be accepted as the patron saint of Democracy.

What's red, white and blue with an elephant on the run in the Badger State? The logo for next year's Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. The Republican National Committee unveiled the ...

In 1874, Nast used the elephant in Harper's Weekly magazine, and that is when the elephant started to take hold as the Republican party's symbol and is now synonymous with the party.

A Republican group in Alabama is apologizing after accidentally using a picture of a GOP elephant that contained Ku Klux Klan imagery.

On Nov. 7, 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly.

On Nov. 7, 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly.