'What Are You Going to Do About It,' If 'Old Honesty' Lets Him Loose Again?, from "Harper's Weekly"

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'What Are You Going to Do About It,' If 'Old Honesty' Lets Him Loose Again?, from "Harper's Weekly"
'What Are You Going to Do About It,' If 'Old Honesty' Lets Him Loose Again?, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished August 31, 1872
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 10 5/8 × 9 1/16 in. (27 × 23 cm) Sheet: 16 × 11 1/4 in. (40.6 × 28.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.199
Not on view
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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. Publisher banner headline typeset above image in black ink: "Harper's Weekly / Journal of Civilization / Vol. XVI.-No. 818: New York, Saturday, August 31, 1872."
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