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Artist/Maker
Thomas Nast
(American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished January 4, 1873
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 13 11/16 × 21 1/4 in. (34.8 × 54 cm)
Sheet: 16 × 22 3/8 in. (40.6 × 56.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.216
Not on view
DescriptionTwo sleeping children, a girl and a boy, occupy the center of the composition. Depictions of incidents from fairytales and other stories, which are scaled down, interact around them.
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Additional Details
Provenance
2019: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Jay G. Williams.
Signature
Signed "Th Nast / 1872" in block at lower right composition.
Inscribed
Title typeset beneath image in black ink. Page numbers "8" and "9" and publisher typeset above image in black ink.
Thomas Nast
Date: published January 3, 1863
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.26
Thomas Nast
Date: published January 1, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.306
Thomas Nast
Date: published December 25, 1886
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.639
Michael Rakowitz
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.5
Thomas Nast
Date: published September 19, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.253
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date: 1776
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1987.14
Krista Steinke
Date: 2006
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2020.8.17
Antonio da Trento
Date: c. 1527-1531
Medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks (pale green and black)
Object number: 1992.24
Thomas Nast
Date: published September 5, 1868
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.100
Vanessa German
Date: 2016
Medium: Mixed-media assemblage
Object number: 2016.15