He Wants a Change Too, from "Harper's Weekly"

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He Wants a Change Too, from "Harper's Weekly"
He Wants a Change Too, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished October 28, 1876
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 20 5/8 × 13 7/16 in. (52.4 × 34.1 cm) Sheet: 21 1/2 × 15 7/8 in. (54.6 × 40.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.346
Not on view
Description“An angry, wild-eyed, recently emancipated young slave stands among dead bodies and stomps on a bloodstained Ku Klux Klan robe. He stands in front of a wall of writings encouraging blacks to defend themselves in order to get the rights they deserve. The violence of the image reminds a white audience that the black community will not stand mistreatment forever, and that one day they me be fed up enough to violently rebel.” (SOURCE: Susanna White, "Emancipation and Denigration: Thomas Nast Pictures Black America", 2008)

Additional Details

Exhibition History 2008
Clinton, NY (Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Emancipation and Denigration: Thomas Nast Pictures Black America," January 14, 2008 - April 13, 2008
Provenance 2019: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Jay G. Williams.
Markings None noted.
Published References Susanna White, EMANCIPATION AND DENIGRATION: THOMAS NAST PICTURES BLACK AMERICA, exh. cat. (Clinton, NY: Emerson Gallery, 2008)
Signature Signed "Th Nast" in block at lower left composition.
Inscribed Title typeset beneath image in black ink. Page numbers "872" and "873" and publisher typeset above image in black ink.
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Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
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