'Out, Damned Spot! Out, I Say!': Shakespeare, from "Harper's Weekly"

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'Out, Damned Spot! Out, I Say!': Shakespeare, from "Harper's Weekly"
'Out, Damned Spot! Out, I Say!': Shakespeare, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished November 9, 1872
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 8 1/2 × 13 5/8 in. (21.6 × 34.6 cm) Sheet: 16 1/2 × 11 3/8 in. (41.9 × 28.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.211
Not on view
DescriptionCaptioned "Here's the smell of corruption still! All the perfumes of the Cincinnati-Baltimore Platform and the 'Reform' press will not sweeten this corrupt Hall" typeset beneath title in black ink.
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Alternate Titles 'Out, Damned Spot! Out, I Say!': Shakspeare [sic], from "Harper's Weekly"
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 typeset beneath image in black ink. Publication date "November 9, 1872," publisher, and page number "877" typeset above image at top of the sheet.
Section of Contiguous pages 561 to 576
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