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Artist/Maker
Thomas Nast
(American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished December 5, 1874
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 9 1/16 × 13 1/2 in. (23 × 34.3 cm)
Sheet: 15 11/16 × 10 1/8 in. (39.8 × 25.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.264
Not on view
DescriptionMan in robe with wreath on hair sitting on decorated chair center left cutting into animal head on plate. Animal head has the words "Intelligence Department" near site of cut, sign sticking out of head reads "Editor / a la / N.Y. Herald / (tete de veau)". Table animal head is on has a scroll on it reading "Editorial / banquet / a la / white / house / 'The feast / of reason / and the / flow of / soul.' / Huitres / potages. / Hors doeuvres. / Poissons". Rest of scroll is out of illustration. Chalice on table reads "red ink". Bird with human-like head on plate on table has bib reading "Paon. / Editor / a la / Tribune / un-founded." Dish to right of bird has lid reading "Hash / a la / editors". Big chalice to left of animal head reads "Bowles / of / soup / a la [blocked]" and has legs sticking out of top. To right of it dish reads "Irish stew / a la / press". To right of that dish another reads "Southern / (press) / gumbo". On elevated platter two objects read "Cincinnati commercial" and "Louisville / Courier Journal". Sign sticking out of it reads "Cucumbers / a la / (very cool.)" Raised platter to the left has large tongue on it with sign reading "Interviewer's / tongue." Man standing to left of seated man is in a robe and holding a staff with bird head at the top. Man to the right of him is holding a platter with a bird on it and a sign reading "Game / a la / Brooklyn Eagle." Man to the right of him is holding a dish reading "Sun-poisson a la [blocked]" with a human head on a fish body in it. Sign in background above last man reads "Salle / a / manger." Inscribed "-Daily Press Question." typeset after 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 "992," publisher, and publication date "December 5, 1874" typeset above image in black ink.
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