To This We Should Return With the Least Practicable Delay, from "Harper's Weekly"

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To This We Should Return With the Least Practicable Delay, from "Harper's Weekly"
To This We Should Return With the Least Practicable Delay, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished January 9, 1875
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 10 5/8 in. × 9 in. (27 × 22.9 cm) Sheet: 15 13/16 × 10 7/8 in. (40.2 × 27.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.267
Not on view
DescriptionBoat with American flag on it and sign on the front reading "The Ark of State." Man standing in window on boat wearing toga points off into the distance. In the water reads "Inflation." with six men float on their backs behind it in front of the boat. In the background a bird flies over the rainbow reading "Our Credit". Rock below rainbow reads "Sound / specie / basis. / Gold and silver". "--U. S. GRANT" typeset following 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. Publisher banner headline typeset above image in black ink: "Harper's Weekly / Journal of Civilization / Vol. XIX.-No. 941: New York, Saturday, January 9, 1875."
'The Indifference' of Uncle Sam, from "Harper's Weekly"
'The Indifference' of Uncle Sam, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published December 9, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.353
Precious Jewel of thy Home Return, from "Harper's Weekly"
Precious Jewel of thy Home Return, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published September 5, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.252
Any Thing but a ‘Pacific Mail’, from "Harper's Weekly"
Any Thing but a ‘Pacific Mail’, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published March 6, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.274
The ‘Funny’ Little Boy in Trouble, from "Harper's Weekly"
The ‘Funny’ Little Boy in Trouble, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published November 28, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.262
Let Us Be Thankful, from "Harper's Weekly"
Let Us Be Thankful, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published July 4, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.246
The Mysterious Influence of the New York ‘Herald!’, from "Harper's Weekly"
The Mysterious Influence of the New York ‘Herald!’, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published February 13, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.270
An Inflation Opinion, from "Harper's Weekly"
An Inflation Opinion, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published July 4, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.247
Peevish School-Boys, Worthless of Such Honor, from "Harper's Weekly"
Peevish School-Boys, Worthless of Such Honor, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published June 6, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.242
Photo by John Bentham.
U.S. Post Office Tailoring Company
Thomas Nast
Date: 1889
Medium: Lithograph
Object number: 1944.1.74
Whose Funeral Is It?, from "Harper's Weekly"
Whose Funeral Is It?, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published March 20, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.276
Struck--at Sea, from "Harper's Weekly"
Struck--at Sea, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published October 21, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.343
A Tammany Rat, from "Harper's Weekly"
A Tammany Rat, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published November 7, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.259