Jewels Among Swine, from "Harper's Weekly"

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Jewels Among Swine, from "Harper's Weekly"
Jewels Among Swine, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished June 13, 1874
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 10 3/4 × 9 1/8 in. (27.3 × 23.2 cm) Sheet: 15 11/16 × 10 7/8 in. (39.8 × 27.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.243
Not on view
DescriptionPolice officers with pig faces and women in the streets with liquor stores/bars in the background. Some of the women and citizens also have pig facial features. Captioned "'The police authorities, that do not enforce the laws against the liquor traffic, that do not suppress gambling or houses of ill repute......distinguished themselves on / Saturday by arresting forty-three women, who went on the streets to sing and pray, and marching them to the station house.' -Cincinnati Gazette." typeset beneath title in black ink.
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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 right 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. XVIII.-No. 911: New York, Saturday, June 13, 1874."
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