What Are You Going to do About It?, from "Harper's Weekly"

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What Are You Going to do About It?, from "Harper's Weekly"
What Are You Going to do About It?, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 – 1902)
Datepublished May 18, 1872
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 10 5/8 × 9 in. (27 × 22.9 cm) Sheet: 15 3/4 × 11 1/16 in. (40 × 28.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.184
Not on view
DescriptionCaptioned "Our brave and honorable Governor. 'So convinced am I that great and disastrous evils to the city are likely to grow out of the enactment / of this charter, that if I knew every man in the city of New York was clamoring for it, I would not give it my approval'" typeset beneath title 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 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. XVI.-No. 803: New York, Saturday, May 18, 1872."
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