This Will be a Change, from "Harper's Weekly"

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This Will be a Change, from "Harper's Weekly"
This Will be a Change, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished November 4, 1876
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 11 in. × 9 1/16 in. (27.9 × 23 cm) Sheet: 16 5/8 × 11 7/16 in. (42.2 × 29.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.347
Not on view
DescriptionJustice scale with right side labelled "The / Solid / South" on ground, weighed down by bags with labels about "Southern Claims", men piling bags on. Left side labelled "Light / Bread" at top of image. Below it sign reads "To the poor. / Bread raised / without / yeast. / Vote / for / Tilden, / and / reform, / and / a high old / time." People below sign looking up. Upper right corner has typed quote in two columns titled "Any thing for a change."

Additional Details

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. Publisher banner headline typeset above image in black ink: "Harper's Weekly / Journal of Civilization / Vol. XX.-No. 1036: New York, Saturday, November 4, 1876."
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