A Moonshine Scene, from Harper's Weekly

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A Moonshine Scene, from Harper's Weekly
A Moonshine Scene, from Harper's Weekly
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished March 27, 1875
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 8 3/4 × 13 3/8 in. (22.2 × 34 cm) Sheet: 15 13/16 × 10 15/16 in. (40.2 × 27.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.277
Not on view
DescriptionFigure with donkey head wearing a wreath on his head is standing upright on left side of composition. His eye has a ring around it reading "Third term" and his belt reads "Caesars". One man is shoving a battle axe through the figure's torso. The staff of the battle axe reads "N.Y. Tribune", and the head reads "This / is / not / G. Washington's". Another man stabs the figure's lower body with a sword reading "N.Y. Herald. (The Damascus) / (Blade.)" Captioned "'We do it wrong, being so majestical, / To offer it the show of violence;" typeset beneath and left of title in black ink, captioned "For it is, as the air, invulnerable, / And our vain blows malicious mockery.'---SHAKSPEARE.
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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 "256," publisher, and publication date "March 27, 1875" typeset above image in black ink.
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