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Artist/Maker
Thomas Nast
(American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished September 5, 1868
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition (a): 13 15/16 × 9 1/8 in. (35.4 × 23.2 cm)
Composition (b): 7 7/8 × 5 5/8 in. (20 × 14.3 cm)
Sheet: 15 3/8 in. × 11 in. (39.1 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.100
Not on view
DescriptionComposition a captioned "We regard the Reconstruction Acts (so called) of Congress as usurpations, and unconstitutional, revolutionary, and void" from the "Democratic Platform" typeset beneath title in black ink. Composition b captioned "Lady *******. 'Out damned spot! Out, I say!...... Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Democ- / racy will not sweeten this little hand. Oh! oh! oh!'" typeset beneath title in black ink. Composition b occupies the top left of the sheet, spanning two-thirds the width and a half the height. The sheet is divided into four columns of advertisements. Page 561 features the banner headline for "Volume XII: No. 610", typeset in black ink, along with an illustration titled "The pet calf" by R. Ansdell. Page 564 is divided into three rows of illustrations titled "Collecting the Customs: Operations of the Customs Inspectors and Agents at New York" sketched by T. R. Davis. The first row features two images captioned "Barge Office at Whitehall Landing, New York" and "Custom Officers Boarding a Steamer". The second row features one illustration captioned "Custom Officers Examining Baggage at the Dock". The third row features two images captioned "Passengers paying duties" and "Searching a Suspected Smuggler". Page 565 is comprised of text, titled "The Lawyer's Story", with an accompanying illustration, captioned "Walter, you are the only friend I have on earth" by "V. F. V.". This section spans two-thirds the of the sheet's width. Beneath the story is an illustration titled "Camp of the Papal Zouaves: the Pope Pronouncing his Benediction". There is an illustration by Tho. North on page 567 captioned "Old Lady. 'Bless my stars, what small eyes they do put in needles now to what they / used to!". Illustration occupies the bottom right of the sheet, spanning half the width and a third of the height. The sheet is divided into four columns that describe the illustrations "Collecting the Customs" and "The Papal Zouaves" and house the humors of the day.
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Alternate Titles
'This is a White Man's Government', from "Harper's Weekly"
Time, Midnight: Scene, New York City Hall, from "Harper's Weekly"
Time, Midnight: Scene, New York City Hall, 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 of composition and at lower right of composition b.
Inscribed
Title typeset above composition a and beneath composition b in black ink. Illegible pencil inscription at top right of page 561. Sections of the caption from composition a underlined in black pen ink.
Thomas Nast
Date: published March 30, 1872
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.171
Thomas Nast
Date: published April 27, 1872
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.178
Thomas Nast
Date: published May 8, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.282
Thomas Nast
Date: published May 23, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.241
Thomas Nast
Date: published December 5 , 1863
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.47
Unknown artist
Date: c. 883-859 BCE
Medium: Gypsum with remnants of red pigment
Object number: 1868.5
Thomas Nast
Date: published March 20, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.276
Thomas Nast
Date: published July 6, 1872
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.191
Thomas Nast
Date: published July 3, 1869
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: S2019.2.28
Thomas Nast
Date: published March 15, 1873
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.218
Unknown artist
Date: probably mid-16th century
Medium: Double-sided watercolor, ink, and gold leaf on paper
Object number: 1986.29.1a-b