A Dream: Before and After Thanksgiving Dinner, from "Harper's Weekly"

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A Dream: Before and After Thanksgiving Dinner, from "Harper's Weekly"
A Dream: Before and After Thanksgiving Dinner, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished December 7, 1878
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition (a): 5 15/16 × 9 3/16 in. (15.1 × 23.3 cm) Composition (b): 6 11/16 × 9 3/16 in. (17 × 23.3 cm) Sheet: 15 1/2 × 10 3/8 in. (39.4 × 26.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.448
Not on view

Additional Details

Provenance 2019: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Jay G. Williams.
Markings None noted.
Signature Signed "Th Nast" in block at lower right of composition a.
Inscribed Title in block between composition a and composition b in black ink. Page number "968," publisher, and publication date "December 7, 1878" typeset above image in black ink.
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