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Artist/Maker
Thomas Nast
(American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished March 30, 1872
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 13 1/4 × 9 in. (33.7 × 22.9 cm)
Sheet: 15 7/8 × 11 1/8 in. (40.3 × 28.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.171
Not on view
DescriptionFour rows of images on verso: the first occupies one-fifth of the vertical space and features a portraits of "Thomas Lowery" and "Calvin Oxendine", each one-fourth of the width, on either side of a map titled "Robeson County, North Carolina: The Scene of the Bandit's Operations". The second row is comprised of a single illustration titled "Henry Berry Lowery and his Gang in the Swamp" and occupies two-fifths of the height and the entire width of the page. The third row features two images of equal size titled 'Rescue of Lowery's Wife and Children" and "A Shrewd Maneuver". The row evokes the composition of the first, with two portraits of "Henderson Oxendine" and "George Applewhite" on either side of the "Moss neck". Titles lie beneath images 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. Page number "248," publisher, and publication date "March 30, 1872" typeset above image in black ink.
Thomas Nast
Date: published September 5, 1868
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.100
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Date: published April 27, 1872
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.178
Thomas Nast
Date: published April 20, 1872
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.175
Thomas Nast
Date: published September 22, 1860
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.6
Thomas Nast
Date: published May 23, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.241
Thomas Nast
Date: published July 3, 1869
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: S2019.2.28
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Date: published May 8, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.282
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Date: 2019
Medium: Pigment print on archival paper
Object number: 2019.16.2
Wendy Red Star
Date: 2019
Medium: Pigment print on archival paper
Object number: 2019.16.7
Wendy Red Star
Date: 2019
Medium: Portfolio of 15 pigment prints on archival paper
Object number: 2019.16.1-15
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Date: 2003
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2020.8.22