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Artist/Maker
Thomas Nast
(American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished December 13, 1873
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 20 × 13 3/4 in. (50.8 × 34.9 cm)
Sheet: 21 13/16 × 15 3/4 in. (55.4 × 40 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.226
Not on view
DescriptionSpans two pages within a folio of continuous pages with an illustration titled "Shelter for the Homeless: Night Scene in a New York Station".
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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 numbers "1112" and "1113" and publisher typeset above image in black ink.
Thomas Nast
Date: published March 15, 1873
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.218
Thomas Nast
Date: published September 5, 1868
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.100
Thomas Nast
Date: published December 5 , 1863
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.47
William C. Palmer
Date: 1938
Medium: Ink and graphite on paper
Object number: WCP.XXX.38
Jamea Richmond-Edwards
Date: 2018
Medium: Pigment print with silkscreen diamond dust and gold foil
Object number: 2020.1
Thomas Nast
Date: published May 16, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.239
William C. Palmer
Date: 1953
Medium: Crayon and graphite on paper
Object number: WCP.XXX.32
William C. Palmer
Date: 1925-26
Medium: Graphite, crayon, watercolor and ink on paper
Object number: WCP.XXX.23
William C. Palmer
Date: c. 1940
Medium: Ink, wash, and graphite on paper
Object number: WCP.XXX.15
Thomas Nast
Date: published July 4, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.246
Don Freeman
Date: June 1937
Medium: Volume of fifteen bound lithographs
Object number: 2008.2.10