Our Rising Generation, from "Harper's Weekly"

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Our Rising Generation, from "Harper's Weekly"
Our Rising Generation, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished October 14, 1871
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 9 3/16 × 13 3/4 in. (23.3 × 34.9 cm) Sheet: 15 3/4 × 10 7/8 in. (40 × 27.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.148
Not on view
DescriptionComposition divided into five images, one centered on the sheet with a column of two images on either side. The main image is captioned "The lost trades / an honest day's work, for an honest day's pay", which decreases in size as it crosses into the right column. The top left image is captioned "The road to gentility" while the bottom left is captioned "the road to duty and labor". In the right column, the top image is captioned "competition lively" while the bottom image is captioned "competition nowhere".
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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 at lower left composition.
Inscribed Title in block across bottom of composition in black ink. Publication date "Supplement, October 14, 1871," publisher, and page number "969" typeset along left perimeter of composition at top of the sheet in black ink.
Section of Contiguous pages 561 to 576
Section of Contiguous pages 561 to 576
Thomas Nast
Date: published September 5, 1868
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.100
Thanksgiving-Day, November 26, 1863, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thanksgiving-Day, November 26, 1863, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published December 5 , 1863
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.47
Put Yourself in His Place, from "Harper's Weekly"
Put Yourself in His Place, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published March 4, 1871
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.129
© Rhona Bitner, ADAGP, Artists Rights Society, New York. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer W…
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Rhona Bitner
Date: 2020
Medium: Silver gelatin prints
Object number: 2024.7.9.1-84a
Our Common Schools as They Are and as They May Be, from "Harper's Weekly"
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Thomas Nast
Date: published February 26, 1870
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.114
Shall Teachers; Salaries be Lowered?, from Harper's Weekly
Shall Teachers; Salaries be Lowered?, from Harper's Weekly
Thomas Nast
Date: published December 19, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.265
© Doug DuBois. Image courtesy of Light Work, Syracuse, NY. For educational purposes only.
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Doug DuBois
Date: 2000
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2020.8.8
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Who Backed Down?, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published August 23, 1879
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: S2019.2.193
No Church Need Apply, from "Harper's Weekly"
No Church Need Apply, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published May 8, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.282
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Where’s the Difference?, from Harper's Weekly
Thomas Nast
Date: published July 3, 1869
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.108
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Thomas Nast
Date: published November 4, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.347
Head to Head, from the series "Double Life"
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Kelli Connell
Date: 2008
Medium: Pigmented inkjet print
Object number: 2012.1.1