'By Inflation You Will Burst' and 'Let Well Enough Alone, and don't Make it Worse', from "Harper's Weekly"

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'By Inflation You Will Burst' and 'Let Well Enough Alone, and don't Make it Worse', from "Harper's Weekly"
'By Inflation You Will Burst' and 'Let Well Enough Alone, and don't Make it Worse', from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished December 20, 1873
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition (a): 8 1/2 × 9 in. (21.6 × 22.9 cm) Composition (b): 4 1/2 × 4 7/16 in. (11.4 × 11.3 cm) Composition (c): 4 1/2 × 4 7/16 in. (11.4 × 11.3 cm) Sheet: 15 13/16 × 10 13/16 in. (40.2 × 27.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.227
Not on view
DescriptionComposition a captioned "Uncle Sam. 'You stupid money-bad! There is just so much money in you and you can not make it any more by blowing yourself up" typeset beneath title in black ink. Composition b captioned "Money is tight, but let it recover itself naturally, and then it will stand on a sounder basis" typeset beneath title in black ink. Composition c captioned "Stimulants or inflation only bring final collapse" 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 of composition a.
Inscribed Title typeset beneath images in black ink. Publication date "December 20, 1873," publisher, and page number "1141" typeset above image at top of the sheet.
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