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Artist/Maker
Thomas Nast
(American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished October 4, 1873
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 13 × 9 1/4 in. (33 × 23.5 cm)
Sheet: 15 13/16 × 11 in. (40.2 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.219
Not on view
DescriptionCaptioned "James Brutus Bennett, Jun. 'I think it is the dullness of the times that shapes this monstrous apparition. Art thou any thing? What do I see?' / The ghost of Caesarism. 'What do you see? You see an ass-head of your own; do you?'" 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. Page number "872," publisher, and publication date "October 4, 1873" typeset above image in black ink.
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Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
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Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
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Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
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