Moses Junior Viewing the Promised Land from Mount Ruin, from "Harper's Weekly"

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Moses Junior Viewing the Promised Land from Mount Ruin, from "Harper's Weekly"
Moses Junior Viewing the Promised Land from Mount Ruin, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished July 25, 1874
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 13 5/8 × 9 1/8 in. (34.6 × 23.2 cm) Sheet: 15 5/8 × 10 3/4 in. (39.7 × 27.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.249
Not on view
DescriptionBack of man standing on box labelled "South Carolina Treasury" and leaning over pile of flyers with words such as "corruption", "beggary / and / ruin", "state / debt", "taxes", "fraud" etc. written on them. Pieces of paper coming out of his back pockets read "pardon / convicts" and "pardons / to / criminals". He is using binoculars to look at the "S.C. State Prison" in the background.
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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 upper right composition.
Inscribed Title typeset beneath image in black ink. Page number "616," publisher, and publication date "July 25, 1874" 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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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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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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