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Photo by John Bentham.
Union Veteran
Photo by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Date1892
MediumInk and graphite on paper with collaged elements
DimensionsComposition: 22 × 19 in. (55.9 × 48.3 cm) Sheet: 22 × 19 in. (55.9 × 48.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist's son
Object number1944.1.75
Not on view
DescriptionThis preparatory sketch for a wood engraved illustration (possibly never published) depicts a Civil War veteran with amputated arm sitting in a chair beside a stove in a small cabin. In his hands a newspaper reads, "Defeat all along the line of battle." Behind him are portraits of Ulysses S. Grant crowned with laurels and Benjamin Harrison. A portrait of Major General Daniel Sickles is turned toward the wall in disgrace. A canteen labeled "US" and a hat hang on the wall.
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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 Recto, lower right (ink): "Th. Nast 1892"
Inscribed Recto, lower left: "Union Veteran: Our Comrade Knows We Did Our Duty"
Recto, lower right: "In Retreat / Captain: 'Steady Boys / Steady!!'"
Recto, top left: "The Battle of / Bull Run 1861"
Recto, top right: "Four / Years / After. Appomattox / 1865 / The Surrender of / Gen. Lee and his Army to / Gen. U.S. Grant"
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Thomas Nast
Date: c. 1897
Medium: Ink on paper with collage elements (recto and verso)
Object number: 1944.1.72a-b
Image Not Available for Now Begins the Rub, from "The Daily Graphic"
Now Begins the Rub, from "The Daily Graphic"
Thomas Nast
Date: published August 27, 1883
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 1944.1.15
Britannia Lionizing our Modern Ulysses, from "Harper's Weekly"
Britannia Lionizing our Modern Ulysses, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published June 30, 1877
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.382
Photo by John Bentham.
His Record - Once More In It
Thomas Nast
Date: 1892
Medium: Lithograph
Object number: 1944.1.69
Merry Christmas to All, from "Harper's Weekly"
Merry Christmas to All, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published December 30, 1865
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.75
The Greatest Joke of the Century, from "Harper's Weekly"
The Greatest Joke of the Century, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published June 20, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.244
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Raphael
Date: 1875-1900
Medium: Albumen print
Object number: S2018.2.694
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Unknown artist, Peruivian (Cuzco School)
Date: late 17th-early 18th century
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object number: 2019.12
Washington, Lincoln, and Grant, from "Harper's Weekly"
Washington, Lincoln, and Grant, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published February 27, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.272
Figures in a Wooded Landscape
Figures in a Wooded Landscape
Daniel Huntington
Date: 1867
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object number: 2004.7
Statue design depicting Albrecht Dürer
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Konrad Eberhard
Date: April 6, 1828
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1983.37
A Box Stew; or, An Enviable Position, from "Harper's Weekly"
A Box Stew; or, An Enviable Position, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published September 9, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.338