The City Treasury, from "Harper's Weekly"

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The City Treasury, from "Harper's Weekly"
The City Treasury, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished October 14, 1871
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 8 1/4 × 13 13/16 in. (21 × 35.1 cm) Sheet: 15 7/16 × 10 3/8 in. (39.2 × 26.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.147
Not on view
DescriptionInscribed "Empty / 'What are you going to do about it?' / Full" in block above image in black ink. Inscribed "Empty to the workmen. / The four masters that emptied it" in block beneath image in black ink.
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Provenance 2019: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Jay G. Williams.
Signature Signed "Th Nast" in block centered at the bottom of the composition.
Inscribed Title typeset beneath image in black ink. Page number "960," publisher, and publication date "October 14, 1871" typeset along right perimeter of image at top of sheet in black ink.
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