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Artist/Maker
Thomas Nast
(American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished March 30, 1872
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 10 1/16 × 9 in. (25.6 × 22.9 cm)
Sheet: 15 15/16 × 11 1/16 in. (40.5 × 28.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.170
Not on view
DescriptionCaptioned "Iago (studying his part) 'I know not if't be true / but I, for mere suspicion in that kind, / will do, as if for surety' ...... / ...... 'Divinity of hell! / When devils will their blackest sins put on / they do suggest at first with heavenly shows, as I do now': Shakspeare [sic]" typeset beneath title in black ink.
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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 left composition.
Inscribed
Title typeset beneath image in black ink. Publisher banner headline typeset above image in black ink: "Harper's Weekly / Journal of Civilization / Vol. XVI.-No. 796: New York, Saturday, March 30, 1872." Pencil inscription above banner headline "[illegible]".
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Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
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Date: May 8, 2008
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Date: 1990 (printed 2010)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
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