Proud of His Appendage: He is the Boss Napolean of Spoils

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Photo by John Bentham.
Proud of His Appendage: He is the Boss Napolean of Spoils
Photo by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datec. 1897
MediumInk on paper with collage elements (recto and verso)
DimensionsSheet: 22 1/4 × 13 1/2 in. (56.5 × 34.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist's son
Object number1944.1.72a-b
Not on view
DescriptionRecto depicts a tiger with human head, while the verso features a man (likely a politician) dressed as Napolean.
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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.
Signature "Th: Nast" at lower right composition in ink; "Th: Nast 1897" on verso at lower left in ink.
Photo by John Bentham.
Union Veteran
Thomas Nast
Date: 1892
Medium: Ink and graphite on paper with collaged elements
Object number: 1944.1.75
Study for oil of Ezra Pound (recto and verso)
Study for oil of Ezra Pound (recto and verso)
Wyndham Lewis
Date: 1938
Medium: Double-sided drawing with transparent watercolor wash over graphite and charcoal (recto) and graphite (verso) on paper
Object number: 2004.3a-b
Photograph by John Bentham.
Thornhead (recto); Head of Christ (verso)
Graham Sutherland
Date: 1946
Medium: Double-sided painting: ink and gouache (recto); gouache (verso) on board
Object number: 1991.217a-b
What Are You Laughing At? To the Victor Belong the Spoils, from "Harper's Weekly"
What Are You Laughing At? To the Victor Belong the Spoils, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published November 25, 1871
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.157
Photo by John Bentham.
His Castle His Paddy - Gree
Thomas Nast
Date: 1889
Medium: Ink
Object number: 1944.1.23a-b
Photo by John Bentham.
Bukan and the Tiger
Unknown artist, Japanese
Date: date unknown
Medium: Ink and hand-colored drawing
Object number: 2024.1.2
Photo by John Bentham.
A spinning-top performance by Takezawa Toji (recto); Kodakara Yuu (verso)
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Date: c. 1844
Medium: Woodblock print
Object number: 1985.46a-b
Photograph by John Bentham.
Figure study
Date: probably 17th century
Medium: Pen and ink on paper
Object number: 1996.15.2
Photograph by John Bentham
The Vendors and the Wind
Yun-Fei Ji
Date: 2014
Medium: Ink and watercolor on Xuan paper, mounted on silk
Object number: 2016.3.2
First Appearance: Wallace D. Muhammad, gestures as he speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago Sunday. It is his first public appearance since he succeeded his father a leader of the Black Muslims. He called for stronger family ties among Muslims and for supremacy of the mind. He also said that Black Muslims should respect whites who respect blacks.
First Appearance: Wallace D. Muhammad, gestures as he speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago Sunday. It is his first public appearance since he succeeded his father a leader of the Black Muslims. He called for stronger family ties among Muslims and for supremacy of the mind. He also said that Black Muslims should respect whites who respect blacks.
Date: June 16, 1975
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.267
© Estate of the artist or assignee.
A Shore Scene
Wyndham Lewis
Date: 1920
Medium: Gouache, ink, and watercolor with collage on paper
Object number: 1994.130
© Leonard Freed. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinto…
On a warm July day neighborhood children play in a patrol car. At another time, an officer reminisced about wintry midnight tours, about the isolation he felt in the patrol car. Night after night he drove the same streets saw the same drunks, homeless ones, addicts, whom he had to move on, clearing the street. He had his anxieties. What, he wondered, would he do if one night they were gone? Whom would he talk to?, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.35