A Duel: After the Spat, from "Harper's Weekly"

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A Duel: After the Spat, from "Harper's Weekly"
A Duel: After the Spat, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished July 17, 1869
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 9 1/8 × 13 7/8 in. (23.2 × 35.2 cm) Sheet: 16 9/16 × 11 11/16 in. (42.1 × 29.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.109
Not on view
DescriptionThe London Illustrated News published a picture entitled “Duel in the Snow” depicting a scene from a play at Drury Lane Theatre. Nast copied the picture quite exactly but used animal rather than human faces to create this droll picture. (SOURCE: Jay Williams, "Thomas Nast: America in Black and White", 2002)
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Exhibition History 2002
Clinton, NY (Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Thomas Nast: America in Black and White," November 11, 2002 - January 5, 2003 (cat. no. 120)
Provenance 2019: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Jay G. Williams.
Published References Jay Williams, THOMAS NAST: AMERICA IN BLACK AND WHITE, exh. cat. (Clinton, NY: Emerson Gallery, 2002), p. 8.
Signature Signed "Th Nast" in block at lower right composition.
Inscribed Title typeset beneath image in black ink. Page number "460," publisher, and publication date "July 17, 1869" typeset along right perimeter of image at top of the sheet in black ink.
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