The President's Message, from "The Daily Graphic"

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The President's Message, from "The Daily Graphic"
The President's Message, from "The Daily Graphic"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished September 8, 1888
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 18 3/4 × 12 1/8 in. (47.6 × 30.8 cm) Sheet: 21 in. × 14 1/2 in. (53.3 × 36.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist's son
Object number1944.1.33
Not on view
DescriptionNewspaper advertisement for G.P. Putnam's Sons "The President's Message," printed in large type, small quarto, with sixteen full-page moral and graphic illustrations from original designs by Thomas Nast.
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Provenance 1943: Hamilton College, by gift of Mabel Nast Crawford and Cyril Nast;
? - 1943: Thomas Nast family (Mrs. Thomas Nast, Thomas Nast Jr., Mabel Nast Crawford, and Cyril Nast), presumably by gift or inheritance from the artist.
Markings None noted.
Signature Vignettes signed in block at lower right [in 2 bottom illustrations, and top right illustration]: Th: Nast.; top in block at lower left [in top left illustration]: Th: Nast.
Inscribed Inscribed in typeset at upper center: THE DAILY GRAPHIC / AN ILLUSTRATED EVENING NEWSPAPER / 39 & 41 PARK PLACE; entitled in typeset at lower center: THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. / WITH NINETEEN GRAPHIC AND MORAL FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY THOMAS NAST. / PUBLISHED BY G.P. PUTMAN'S SONS, NEW YORK. 4 TO., 25 CENTS.; in pencil on verso at lower right: INV 108
Thomas Nast
Date: published August 27, 1883
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 1944.1.15
Photo by John Bentham.
Thomas Nast
Date: c. 1869
Medium: Graphite on paper
Object number: 1944.1.4a-b
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Thomas Nast
Date: published February 6, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: S2019.2.103
Don Freeman
Date: June 1937
Medium: Volume of fifteen bound lithographs
Object number: 2008.2.10
Photograph by John Bentham.
Christoph Jamnitzer
Date: published 1610 (possibly printed later)
Medium: Engraving
Object number: 1928.11
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Thomas Nast
Date: published September 5, 1868
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.100
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Date: Publ. 1844
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.66
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D.W. Kellogg & Company
Date: unknown
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.143
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Jamea Richmond-Edwards
Date: 2018
Medium: Pigment print with silkscreen diamond dust and gold foil
Object number: 2020.1
Photo by John Bentham.
Pietro Bazzanti
Date: before 1881
Medium: Marble
Object number: 2023.10.83
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George Catlin
Date: published 1838
Medium: Lithograph with hand coloring
Object number: 1971.42
Photo by Paul Salveson.
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Date: 2023
Medium: Acrylic, graphite, kitakata paper, coated pastel paper
Object number: 2024.20.1-4