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Artist/Maker
Thomas Nast
(American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished November 11, 1865
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 9 in. × 13 1/2 in. (22.9 × 34.3 cm)
Sheet: 15 7/16 × 11 1/16 in. (39.2 × 28.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.73
Not on view
DescriptionCaptioned "Beastly instincts, demagogical habits, / boorish mind" in block at left of composition. Captioned "Boorish tailor. Drunken beast. Patriot. Statesman. Jackson" in block along top of composition. Captioned "Not one word or act of his which / a national democrat would not defend" in block along right of composition.
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Additional Details
Alternate Titles
Democracy, November 1865 1865, from "Harper's Weekly"
Provenance
2019: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Jay G. Williams.
Signature
Signed "Th Nast" in block at lower left composition.
Inscribed
Descriptive title in block along bottom of composition. Publication date "November 11, 1865," publisher, and page number "821" typeset above image at top of the sheet.
Thomas Nast
Date: published December 5 , 1863
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.47
Thomas Nast
Date: published April 6, 1867
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.88
Thomas Nast
Date: published September 5, 1868
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.100
Thomas Nast
Date: published February 9, 1867
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.85
Date: c. 883-859 BCE
Medium: Gypsum with remnants of red pigment
Object number: 1868.5
Antonio da Trento
Date: c. 1527-1531
Medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks (pale green and black)
Object number: 1992.24
Thomas Nast
Date: published July 27, 1872
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.195
Thomas Nast
Date: published March 20, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.276
Thomas Nast
Date: published February 26, 1870
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.114
Thomas Nast
Date: published June 4, 1892
Medium: Lithograph
Object number: 1944.1.49
Thomas Nast
Date: published May 28, 1870
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.117