A General Blow-up: Dead Asses Kicking a Live Lion, from "Harper's Weekly"

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A General Blow-up: Dead Asses Kicking a Live Lion, from "Harper's Weekly"
A General Blow-up: Dead Asses Kicking a Live Lion, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished May 16, 1874
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 20 × 13 1/2 in. (50.8 × 34.3 cm) Sheet: 21 11/16 × 15 3/4 in. (55.1 × 40 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.239
On view
DescriptionSet of contiguous pages with illustration titled "Jacob Wainwright and the Body of Dr. Livingstone" by JN on page "413".
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Exhibition History 2024-2025
Clinton, NY. The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. "Menagerie: Animals in Art from the Wellin Museum," September 7, 2024 –June 8, 2025 (no cat.). Work exhibited in second rotation only, Spring 2025 semester.
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 "416" and "417" and publisher typeset above image in black ink.
Every Public Question with an Eye only to the Public Good, from "Harper's Weekly"
Every Public Question with an Eye only to the Public Good, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published March 15, 1873
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.218
The Biggest Scare and Hoax Yet!--The Wild Animals Let Loose Again by the Zoomorphism Press, from "Harper's Weekly"
The Biggest Scare and Hoax Yet!--The Wild Animals Let Loose Again by the Zoomorphism Press, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published February 6, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: S2019.2.103
Let Us Think Twice before we Let Loose the Dogs of War, from "Harper's Weekly"
Let Us Think Twice before we Let Loose the Dogs of War, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published December 13, 1873
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.226
The Democratic Tiger-in-the-Manger, and the Submissive (M)Asses, from "Harper's Weekly"
The Democratic Tiger-in-the-Manger, and the Submissive (M)Asses, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published April 22, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.322
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Jamea Richmond-Edwards
Date: 2018
Medium: Pigment print with silkscreen diamond dust and gold foil
Object number: 2020.1
Justice on the Rail: Erie Railroad (Ring) Smash Up, from "Harper's Weekly"
Justice on the Rail: Erie Railroad (Ring) Smash Up, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published March 30, 1872
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.171
The Lion (U.S.G.) Not in Love.--Went to Clip, but Was Clipped, from "Harper's Weekly"
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Thomas Nast
Date: published May 27, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.325
Image Not Available for Don Freeman's Newstand, Vol. 4
Don Freeman's Newstand, Vol. 4
Don Freeman
Date: June 1937
Medium: Volume of fifteen bound lithographs
Object number: 2008.2.10
Section of Contiguous pages 561 to 576
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Thomas Nast
Date: published September 5, 1868
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.100
Photograph by John Bentham.
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William C. Palmer
Date: 1938
Medium: Ink and graphite on paper
Object number: WCP.XXX.38
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Thomas Nast
Date: published August 14, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.294
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Date: Published June 15, 1941
Medium: Color rotogravure
Object number: 2012.4.1