Le Jeu Ne Vaut Pas La Chandelle (The Game is Not Worth a Candle)
Thomas Nast American, born Germany
Subject Jay Gould
Not on view
The American robber baron Jay Gould (1832–1896) shakes hands wih the Russian Tsar Alexander in a secret alley. Text at right on a wall reads: "Wanted, a quiet place to be crowned in, or to rest my head. / Alexander III(?) / The grand question of the day.–The date of the coronation?" Alexander's father was assassinated in March 1881 but he was not crowed until May 1883.
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