This Is Only a Truce to Regain Power, from "Harper's Weekly"

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This Is Only a Truce to Regain Power, from "Harper's Weekly"
This Is Only a Truce to Regain Power, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 – 1902)
Datepublished August 24, 1872
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 8 3/4 × 13 3/4 in. (22.2 × 34.9 cm) Sheet: 16 3/4 × 11 1/2 in. (42.5 × 29.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.198
Not on view
DescriptionCaptioned "H.G. 'Clasp hands over the bloody chasm' / C.S. 'Feely accept the hand that is offered, and reach forth thine own in friendly grasp'" 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. Page number "652," publisher, and publication date "August 24, 1872" typeset along right perimeter of image at top of the sheet in black ink.
Photo by John Bentham.
Buffalo Hunt, Chasing Back, plate 12 from the "North American Indian Portfolio"
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.115
Photo by John Bentham.
Ball Play, plate 23 from "North American Indian Portfolio"
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.125
Photo by John Bentham.
Ball-play Dance, plate 22 from "North American Indian Portfolio"
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.124
Photograph by Dave Revette.
Funerary urn
Date: c. 350-600 CE
Medium: Terracotta with remnants of pigment
Object number: 2002.16
A Truce---Not a Compromise, from "Harper's Weekly"
A Truce---Not a Compromise, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published February 17, 1877
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.364
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Shabti
Date: c. 1070-656 B.C.E.
Medium: Faience
Object number: 1943.96
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Fragment of a relief from the Northwest Palace at Nimrud
Date: c. 883-859 B.C.E.
Medium: Gypsum with remnants of red pigment
Object number: 1868.5
Spoon
Spoon
Date: c. 1850-1900
Medium: Mountain goat horn
Object number: 1984.459
Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty, from "Harper's Weekly"
Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published April 10, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.279
Shabti
Date: c. 1070-656 B.C.E.
Medium: Clay with pigment
Object number: 1943.54
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Shabti
Date: c. 1070-656 B.C.E.
Medium: Clay with pigment
Object number: 1943.113
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Shabti
Date: c. 1070-656 B.C.E.
Medium: Clay with pigment
Object number: 1943.53