Homo-Phobia, from "Harper's Weekly"

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Homo-Phobia, from "Harper's Weekly"
Homo-Phobia, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished July 10, 1875
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 13 3/8 in. × 9 in. (34 × 22.9 cm) Sheet: 15 13/16 in. × 11 in. (40.2 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.290
Not on view
DescriptionCaptioned "MRS. MINERVA (troubled about her son the professor). 'What is the matter with him? Nothing seems to please him. It must be too much brain work!' / MISS HYGIENE. 'Brain! Oh dear, no! That will never trouble him. 'Tis the dyspepsia of Caesarism.'" typeset beneath title in black ink.
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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 right composition.
Inscribed Title typeset beneath image in black ink. Publication date "July 10, 1875," publisher, and page number "565" typeset above image at top of the sheet.
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