A Legitimate Question about Home Rule, from "Harper's Weekly"

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A Legitimate Question about Home Rule, from "Harper's Weekly"
A Legitimate Question about Home Rule, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished March 13, 1875
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 13 1/4 × 9 in. (33.7 × 22.9 cm) Sheet: 15 13/16 × 10 7/8 in. (40.2 × 27.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.275
Not on view
DescriptionCaption "U. S. Republic. ‘To whom do you owe your first allegiance?' / Hon. F. Kernan (From New York [?].’This is a very embarrassing position to be placed in'" typeset beneath title in black ink. See article "A divided Allegiance," from page 218.
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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 left composition.
Inscribed Title typeset beneath image in black ink.Page number "211," publisher, and publication date "March 13, 1875" typeset above image in black ink.
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