'A Midsummer-Nights Dream’ Nomination, from "Harper's Weekly"

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'A Midsummer-Nights Dream’ Nomination, from "Harper's Weekly"
'A Midsummer-Nights Dream’ Nomination, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished July 3, 1880
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 13 1/4 × 9 1/8 in. (33.7 × 23.2 cm) Sheet: 15 3/4 × 10 7/8 in. (40 × 27.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.518
Not on view
DescriptionMan with donkey head wearing sandals and toga stands center left, holding a scroll reading "More / Green-Backs / More! More! / A / Song". A woman sits on the ground center right next to a cornucopia and a box reading "Plenty". A sun in the background through trees reads "Green-Back / the / Weaver / for / President of / the U.S." Captioned "THE QUEEN OF FAIRIES (COLUMBIA). 'What angel wakes me from my flowery bed? . . . . Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.'--SHAKESPEARE" typeset beneath 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.
Markings None noted.
Signature Signed "Th Nast" in block at lower left composition.
Inscribed Title typeset beneath image in black ink; Page number "420," publisher, and publication date "[July 3, 1880" typeset above image in black ink.
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
Midsummer Night’s Dream of JuliusCaesarTempestMuchAdoAboutNothingComedyofErrorsAsYouLikeItAll'sWellThatEndsWell, from "Harper's Weekly"
Midsummer Night’s Dream of JuliusCaesarTempestMuchAdoAboutNothingComedyofErrorsAsYouLikeItAll'sWellThatEndsWell, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published October 4, 1873
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.219
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Fragment of a relief from the Northwest Palace at Nimrud
Date: c. 883-859 BCE
Medium: Gypsum with remnants of red pigment
Object number: 1868.5
Not 'Love' but Justice, from "Harper's Weekly"
Not 'Love' but Justice, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published June 26, 1869
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.107
New York Tribune's 'Disclosures', from "Harper's Weekly"
New York Tribune's 'Disclosures', from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published February 28, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.233
Washington, Lincoln, and Grant, from "Harper's Weekly"
Washington, Lincoln, and Grant, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published February 27, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.272
Photograph by Dave Revette.
Funerary urn
Date: c. 350-600 CE
Medium: Terracotta with remnants of pigment
Object number: 2002.16
Let Him Roar, Mr. Speaker, from "Harper's Weekly"
Let Him Roar, Mr. Speaker, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published March 6, 1880
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.502
© Marla Sweeney. Image courtesy of Light Work, Syracuse, NY. For educational purposes only.
Brothers, South Boston Beach
Marla Sweeney
Date: 2003
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2020.8.22
Upon What Meat Doth this Our Caesar Feed that He Hath Grown so Great?, from "Harper's Weekly"
Upon What Meat Doth this Our Caesar Feed that He Hath Grown so Great?, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published December 5, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.264
Photograph by John Bentham.
Nativity
Date: c. 1500-1510
Medium: Limewood with polychrome and gilding
Object number: 2009.6
Untitled, from the "Eatonville Series"
Untitled, from the "Eatonville Series"
Carrie Mae Weems
Date: 2004
Medium: Pigmented inkjet print with text
Object number: 2006.7