Are Republics Ungrateful?, from "Every Saturday: An Illustrated Journal of Choice Readings"

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Are Republics Ungrateful?, from "Every Saturday: An Illustrated Journal of Choice Readings"
Are Republics Ungrateful?, from "Every Saturday: An Illustrated Journal of Choice Readings"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 – 1902)
Datepublished June 4, 1870
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 8 3/4 × 11 11/16 in. (22.2 × 29.7 cm) Sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 7/8 in. (35.2 × 27.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.118
Not on view
DescriptionAmerican Reconstruction Era. Captioned "Alcibiades. I have kept back their foes, / while they have told their money, and let out / Their coin upon large interest: I myself. / Rich only in large hurts, All those for this! / Is this the balsam, that the usuring Senate / Pours into captains' wounds?" from the "Timon of Athens" 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.
Signature Signed "Th Nast" in block at lower left composition.
Inscribed Title typeset beneath image in black ink. Publication date "June 4, 1870," publisher, and page number "361" typeset along left perimeter of composition at top of the sheet in black ink.
The Republic Is Not Ungrateful, from "Harper's Weekly"
The Republic Is Not Ungrateful, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published April 13, 1872
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.173
Arrival of the President of the Republic of France Albert Lebrun in London: A Whitheall Street with a sign on a bar reading "Welcome M. Lebrun", London
Arrival of the President of the Republic of France Albert Lebrun in London: A Whitheall Street with a sign on a bar reading "Welcome M. Lebrun", London
Date: March 21, 1939
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.211
Photo by John Bentham.
Pedestal Bowl containing Orban
Date: late 19th century
Medium: Alabaster and stamped bread
Object number: 1943.19
Photo by John Bentham.
Wi-Jun-Jon, plate 25 from the "North American Indian Portfolio"
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.127
Photograph by John Bentham.
Thornhead (recto); Head of Christ (verso)
Graham Sutherland
Date: 1946
Medium: Double-sided painting: ink and gouache (recto); gouache (verso) on board
Object number: 1991.217a-b
Photograph by John Bentham.
Open Washes
Philip Guston
Date: 1966
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Object number: 1989.18
The Republic in Danger, from "Harper's Weekly"
The Republic in Danger, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published May 1, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.281
No Church Need Apply, from "Harper's Weekly"
No Church Need Apply, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published May 8, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.282
Tweed-le-dee and Tilden-Dum, from "Harper's Weekly"
Tweed-le-dee and Tilden-Dum, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published July 1, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.330
Capture of Basse Terre Guadaloupe, with a View of the attack made upon it by Commodor Moore & Gov Douglas
Capture of Basse Terre Guadaloupe, with a View of the attack made upon it by Commodor Moore & Gov Douglas
Nicholas Pocock
Date: 1789
Medium: Graphite and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.15
In the midst of gloom of a rainy Friday night in the Army, the troops in the Chicago Av. Armory got the good news; Some of them will be home for Easter. Brigadier General Richard T. Dunn, commander of the 5,000 National Guard troops called to active duty after disturbances Thursday, said: "If everything remains quiet and no disturbances grow out of the peace parade Saturday we will begin phasing out troops by midnight tomorrow."
In the midst of gloom of a rainy Friday night in the Army, the troops in the Chicago Av. Armory got the good news; Some of them will be home for Easter. Brigadier General Richard T. Dunn, commander of the 5,000 National Guard troops called to active duty after disturbances Thursday, said: "If everything remains quiet and no disturbances grow out of the peace parade Saturday we will begin phasing out troops by midnight tomorrow."
Date: April 5, 1969
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.271
"Near Melbourne, Australia, a women’s bowling club is holding their Saturday morning tournament. We know the game as Bacci. The object is to get the black balls close to the one white ball."
"Near Melbourne, Australia, a women’s bowling club is holding their Saturday morning tournament. We know the game as Bacci. The object is to get the black balls close to the one white ball."
Ken Heyman
Date: 1959
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2024.21.99