What Are You Laughing At? To the Victor Belong the Spoils, from "Harper's Weekly"

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What Are You Laughing At? To the Victor Belong the Spoils, from "Harper's Weekly"
What Are You Laughing At? To the Victor Belong the Spoils, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished November 25, 1871
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 10 3/4 × 9 in. (27.3 × 22.9 cm) Sheet: 15 3/4 × 10 13/16 in. (40 × 27.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.157
Not on view
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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 right composition.
Inscribed Title typeset beneath image in black ink. Publisher banner headline typeset above image in black ink: "Harper's Weekly / Journal of Civilization / Vol. XV.-No. 778: New York, Saturday, November 25, 1871."
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Photo by John Bentham.
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