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Artist/Maker
Thomas Nast
(American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished June 6, 1874
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 9 in. × 13 5/8 in. (22.9 × 34.6 cm)
Sheet: 15 11/16 × 10 15/16 in. (39.8 × 27.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.242
Not on view
Description4 men left front standing in front of a courtroom. Man right front bowing towards them, holding a hat and sketch book (Th Nast signature on book). Copies of the Daily (Indianapolis) Journal, the Brooklyn Union, the Genteel Critic, the Toledo Blade, and Inflationist on ground in front of man. Inscription top right reads "Republican senators can repudiate their / platform, the national debt, or whatever they / wish but nobody may say a word against / them, as they are scared." Inscription top left reads "Republican / platform. / 'Our national currency / will be perfected by a / speedy resumption / of / specie payment'". Captioned "'Apollos, pardon my great Profaneness; oh, pardon me, that I descend so low!'" 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 center right composition.
Inscribed
Title typeset beneath image in black ink. Page number "480," publisher, and publication date "June 6, 1874" typeset above image in black ink.
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