Every Public Question with an Eye only to the Public Good, from "Harper's Weekly"

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Every Public Question with an Eye only to the Public Good, from "Harper's Weekly"
Every Public Question with an Eye only to the Public Good, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished March 15, 1873
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 12 1/2 × 20 1/2 in. (31.8 × 52.1 cm) Sheet: 15 3/4 × 21 7/8 in. (40 × 55.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.218
Not on view
DescriptionCaptioned "'Well, the wickedness of all of it is, not that these men were bribed or corruptly influences, but that they betrayed the trust of the people, deceived their constituents, and by their evasions / and falsehoods confessed the transaction to be disgraceful': New York Tribune, February 19, 1873 / Justice (to the Saints of the Press). ' Let him that has not betrayed the trust of the people, and is without stain, cast the first stone'" typeset beneath title in black ink. Within folio of contiguous pages featuring various illustrations: "The Unseen Signal of the Jesuits" by C. S. R. on page 205 and "Mille Adele Spitzeder, the Famous German Banker" on page 210.
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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 typeset beneath image in black ink. Page numbers "208" and "209" and publisher typeset above image in black ink.
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