'Fixing Things'---A Proper Steering Apparatus Found, from "Harper's Weekly"

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'Fixing Things'---A Proper Steering Apparatus Found, from "Harper's Weekly"
'Fixing Things'---A Proper Steering Apparatus Found, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished March 25, 1876
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 10 3/4 × 9 1/8 in. (27.3 × 23.2 cm) Sheet: 15 13/16 × 11 13/16 in. (40.2 × 30 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.316
Not on view
DescriptionDonkey on left and tiger on right. Donkey has hands around stub where tail of tiger used to be tying string on. Sign with typed text attached to string. Broken sign on ground. Sign on wall in background.
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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. Publisher banner headline typeset above image in black ink: "Harper's Weekly / Journal of Civilization / Vol. XX.-No. 1004: New York, Saturday, March 25, 1876."

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