Governor Tilden's Democratic 'Wolf (Gaunt and Hungry') and the Goat (Labor), from "Harper's Weekly"

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Governor Tilden's Democratic 'Wolf (Gaunt and Hungry') and the Goat (Labor), from "Harper's Weekly"
Governor Tilden's Democratic 'Wolf (Gaunt and Hungry') and the Goat (Labor), from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished September 9, 1876
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 13 in. × 9 1/8 in. (33 × 23.2 cm) Sheet: 11 1/16 × 15 13/16 in. (28.1 × 40.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.337
Not on view
DescriptionCaptioned "'A Wolf saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a steep precipice, where he had not a chance of reaching her. He called to her, and earnestly besought her to come lower / down, lest she should by some mishap get a fall; and he added that the meadows lay where he was standing, and that the herbage was most tender. She replied: 'No, my / friend; it is not me that you invite to the pasture, but you yourself are in want of food.''---AESOP / MORAL. 'Half a loaf in better than no bread.'" typeset beneath title in black ink.

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 right composition.
Inscribed Title typeset beneath image in black ink. Publication date "September 9, 1876," publisher, and page number "733" typeset above image in black ink.
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