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Artist/Maker
Thomas Nast
(American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Daten.d.
MediumInk on paper
DimensionsComposition/Sheet: 3 in. × 6 3/8 in. (7.6 × 16.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist's son
Object number1944.1.12
Not on view
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Provenance
1943: Hamilton College, by gift of Mabel Nast Crawford and Cyril Nast;
? - 1943: Thomas Nast family (Mrs. Thomas Nast, Thomas Nast Jr., Mabel Nast Crawford, and Cyril Nast), presumably by gift or inheritance from the artist.
? - 1943: Thomas Nast family (Mrs. Thomas Nast, Thomas Nast Jr., Mabel Nast Crawford, and Cyril Nast), presumably by gift or inheritance from the artist.
Inscribed
Recto (ink): "Vaulting Ambition / To Alfred, (to elder brother.) So father's going / to make you a doctor? ah, I'm bound to be / a Sport when I'm grown up so that I / may be able to whip the Benecia boy."
Thomas Nast
Date: late 19th century
Medium: Ink and graphite on paper
Object number: 1944.1.2a-b
Thomas Nast
Date: 1860-1880
Medium: Ink on paper
Object number: 1944.1.6a-b
Thomas Nast
Date: c. 1869
Medium: Ink and graphite on paper
Object number: 1944.1.7a-b
Thomas Nast
Date: c. 1897
Medium: Ink on paper with collage elements (recto and verso)
Object number: 1944.1.72a-b
Thomas Nast
Date: 1892
Medium: Ink and graphite on paper with collaged elements
Object number: 1944.1.75
Thomas Nast
Date: c. 1897
Medium: Graphite and ink on paper
Object number: 1944.1.1a-b
Thomas Nast
Date: 1889
Medium: Ink on two pieces of collaged paper
Object number: 1944.1.21a-b
Thomas Nast
Date: late 19th century
Medium: Graphite on paper
Object number: 1944.1.3a-b