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Artist/Maker
Thomas Nast
(American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished July 25, 1874
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 13 5/8 × 9 1/8 in. (34.6 × 23.2 cm)
Sheet: 15 5/8 × 10 3/4 in. (39.7 × 27.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.249
Not on view
DescriptionBack of man standing on box labelled "South Carolina Treasury" and leaning over pile of flyers with words such as "corruption", "beggary / and / ruin", "state / debt", "taxes", "fraud" etc. written on them. Pieces of paper coming out of his back pockets read "pardon / convicts" and "pardons / to / criminals". He is using binoculars to look at the "S.C. State Prison" in the background.
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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 upper right composition.
Inscribed
Title typeset beneath image in black ink. Page number "616," publisher, and publication date "July 25, 1874" typeset above image in black ink.
Thomas Nast
Date: published August 29, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.251
Thomas Nast
Date: published May 15, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.285
Thomas Nast
Date: published March 6, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.273
Thomas Nast
Date: published May 8, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.282
Thomas Nast
Date: published May 22, 1886
Medium: Wood engraving on paper
Object number: 1944.1.71
Thomas Nast
Date: published July 20, 1872
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.194
Thomas Nast
Date: published June 6, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.242
Thomas Nast
Date: published August 5, 1865
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.71
Thomas Nast
Date: published September 26, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.254
Thomas Nast
Date: published April 8, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.319
Thomas Nast
Date: published October 24, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.256
Bill Owens
Date: c. 1975
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.77