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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M23240
People
After Thomas Nast, American (Landau, Bavaria 1840 - 1902 Guayaquil, Ecuador)
Title
How the Copperheads Obtain Their Votes
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Harper's Weekly, Vol. VIII, No. 411, November 12, 1864
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1864
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/253800

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Wood engraving and letterpress on cream laid paper
Technique
Wood engraving and letterpress
Dimensions
image: 23.3 × 35 cm (9 3/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
sheet: 27.7 × 405 cm (10 7/8 × 159 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right, in block: TO / MY COUNTRY / FOR WHICH I HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED.
  • inscription: upper left, in block: A / CURSE UPON / YOU, FOR MAKING ME APPEAR DISLOYAL.
  • inscription: lower right, in block: Th: Nast.
  • inscription: lower center, below image, letterpress: HOW THE COPPERHEADS OBTAIN THEIR VOTES. - [See First Page.]
  • inscription: left, letterpress: November 12, 1864.] HARPER'S WEEKLY. 725

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Second Story Books], sold; to Harvard Art Musums, 1996

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden
Accession Year
1996
Object Number
M23240
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/23/2019 - 05/13/2019

Verification Level

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