Adding Insult to Injury, from "Harper's Weekly"

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Adding Insult to Injury, from "Harper's Weekly"
Adding Insult to Injury, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished May 25, 1872
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 9 3/4 × 9 1/8 in. (24.8 × 23.2 cm) Sheet: 15 3/4 × 11 1/16 in. (40 × 28.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.185
Not on view
DescriptionCaptioned "Anything to make our republic look ridiculous" 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 right 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. 804: New York, Saturday, May 25, 1872."
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Date: published March 20, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
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Date: published November 28, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
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Thomas Nast
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Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
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Thomas Nast
Date: published April 27, 1872
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
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Thomas Nast
Date: published June 27, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.245
The Duty of the Hour, from "Harper's Weekly"
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Date: published April 1, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
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Date: published January 2, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
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Thomas Nast
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Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.227
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Thomas Nast
Date: published October 11, 1873
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.220
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Pitiful Reform, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published October 30, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.296
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Thomas Nast
Date: published December 11, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
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A Republican Form of Government, and No Domestic Violence, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published March 6, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
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